Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, "American Gothic," was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.

Two new books and one expanded edition of Gordon Parks' photographs look at the work of the photographer from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like.

A web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photos taken by U.S. government agencies during the Great Depression.

With its race issue, the magazine is trying a different direction. Can it escape its past?

Narrated photo journal of time spent with a family to discuss poverty and race.

The novelist's aestheticizing impulse contrasts with the relentless seriousness of his observations and critiques of American society.

During the New Deal, the U.S. knew that economic recovery depended upon housing.

Of the 270,000 photos commissioned to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed.” Explore the hole-punched archive and the void at its center.

In 1971, a wave of Black artists released explosive new work that put its politics front and center.

How the preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image.

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

None of these iconic photographs would exist without the brave photographers documenting the civil rights movement.