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Kansas

Gordon Parks and Julius Zalon, LIFE Magazine

Kansas

1949

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Kansas

1949

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 321 x 270 mm. (32.1 x 27 cm.) Image: 321 x 270 mm. (32.1 x 27 cm.)
Credit Line Purchase with a grant from the Florsheim Art Fund and with matching funds from Roger M. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1998.97
Photographed for a LIFE MAGAZINE assignment [From the series 'Kansas: The Early Years']
from the artist's collection
Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960

Picturing America 1930-1960: Photographs from The Baltimore Museum of Art

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Philip Brookman, HALF PAST AUTUMN, A RETROSPECTIVE: GORDON PARKS, exhibition catalogue (Boston: Bullfinch Press and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1997). Martin Bush, THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF GORDON PARKS, exhibition catalogue (Kansas: Witchita State University, 1983) . GORDON PARKS COLLECTION, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ART, exhibition catalogue (Kansas: Kansas State University, 1983).

Inscribed: Verso: UL, stamped in red ink: LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION; stamped in black ink: Jun 7, 1950; C, stamped in black ink: LIFE PHOTO BY GORDON PARKS; stamped in blue ink: 32212, LC, stamped in black ink: LIFE PRINT BY JULIUS ZALON

Artist

Gordon Parks

1911–2005

born Fort Scott, KS 1912; died New York, NY 2006
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