Gordon Parks - Red Jackson, Harlem, New York, 1948 - Print in Colors
Gordon Parks (American, 1912-2006)
Red Jackson
Harlem, New York, 1948
8" x 10" (Image Size)
Print in Colors Print
The most prominent African-American photographer and journalist of the 1950s and 1960s, Gordon Parks has documented the experiences of under-represented people and communities throughout his career, while simultaneously producing celebrity portraiture, fashion photographs, and news pictures. This image of Harlem gang leader Red Jackson looking pensively out of a broken window at his "turf" is one of a series Parks made for Life magazine in 1948. The photo essay was the first to look closely and soberly at the reality of life in Harlem at mid-century, and, in that respect, anticipates the more strident civil rights exposés by Parks and other photojournalists in the 1960s.