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Gordon Parks
[African-American Photographer, 1912-2006]
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Gordon Parks Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Gordon Parks available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Over 1,000 photographs by Gordon Parks, created for the U.S. Farm Security Administration
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Information about a 2007 exhibition
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Kansas
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Masters of Photography
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Gordon Parks Center, Fort Scott Community College, Kansas
Photo District News Online
"Legends Online"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gordon Parks 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Resource Library Magazine
Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks (Norton Museum of Art)
Resource Library Magazine
Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks (Michael C. Carlos Museum)
Gordon Parks at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1964 interview from the Oral History project
Multimedia:
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
Several appearances by Gordon Parks
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective
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Choice of Weapons
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