Showing posts with label Harlem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harlem. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison, Artistic Giants of Postwar Harlem

Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison, Artistic Giants of Postwar Harlem


An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago explores two collaborations by Parks and Ellison, who used their talents to address racial injustice.


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Friday, May 27, 2016

The End of Black Harlem

The End of Black Harlem


Newcomers say gentrification is about wealth, not race. But that’s a distinction without a difference.


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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Gordon Parks’s Harlem Argument

Gordon Parks’s Harlem Argument


A look at Gordon Parks’s first photo essay for Life shows how editors’ choices of words and pictures can manipulate meaning.


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