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Emerging Man
Portfolio/SeriesA Man Becomes Invisible, LIFE Magazine, August 25, 1952
Artist
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
(United States, 1912 - 2006)
Date1952, printed 2017
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsIMAGE: 9 x 11 7/8 in. (228.6 x 301.6 mm)
SHEET: 11 x 14 in. (279.4 x 355.6 mm)
FRAME: 17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
SHEET: 11 x 14 in. (279.4 x 355.6 mm)
FRAME: 17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
Object TypePhotographs
Credit LineKansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.465. Image courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Object number2017.465
On View
Not on viewLIFE photographer Gordon Parks, a friend of Author [Ralph] Ellison, was so moved by this story [the novel Invisible Man by Ellison] that he translated it into pictures. With Ellison’s help he re-created from the novel the scenes on these pages to show the loneliness, the horror and the disillusionment of a man who has lost faith in himself and his world.
– author unknown, LIFE, August 25, 1952
Exhibitions
Bibliography
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1952, printed 2017
2017.393
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1966, printed 2017
2017.417
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1950, printed 2017
2017.452
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1967, printed 2017
2017.412
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1963, printed 2017
2017.382
