Past prints

摘要

In 1956 a photographer named Gordon Parks travelled to Alabama to document the lives of one extended black family. The Thorntons lived under Jim Crow, the oppressive body of laws and customs in the states of the old Confederacy that enforced the separation of the races and denied full citizenship to the descendants of slaves. As the first African-American staff photographer for Life magazine, Parks felt strongly about the assignment, and the images he captured are marked as much by human warmth as by smouldering moral outrage.