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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Frisco Railway Station, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950, printe…
Frisco Railway Station
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Frisco Railway Station, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950, printe…
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Frisco Railway Station, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950, printed 2017, gelatin silver print, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.342. Image courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation

Frisco Railway Station

Portfolio/SeriesFort Scott Revisited, LIFE Magazine, 1950 (unpublished)
Artist (United States, 1912 - 2006)
Date1950, printed 2017
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsIMAGE: 18 x 12 1/4 in. (457.2 x 311.1 mm)
SHEET: 20 x 16 in. (508 x 406.4 mm)
FRAME: 29 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (74.3 x 59.1 cm)
Object TypePhotographs
Credit LineKansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.342. Image courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Object number2017.342
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Description

Parks included twelve photographs about Kansas in his gift of 128, most from the 1950 LIFE assignment that motivated him to return to Kansas after twenty years away. The resulting photo-essay, Fort Scott Revisited (Parks’s title), documented the lives of African Americans living in segregated Fort Scott and what happened to Parks’s classmates after graduating from their all-Black junior high school. Although the photo-essay went unpublished in the magazine, Parks included photographs taken in Fort Scott in his 1975 book Moments Without Proper Names and in a film of the same name that aired on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) in 1986. The afterlife of Fort Scott Revisited demonstrates the significance it held for Parks. 
 

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