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‘Loaded Camera’: Gordon Parks’ game-changing photos shown at Stanford
‘Loaded Camera’: Gordon Parks’ game-changing photos shown at Stanford
Gordon Parks, Emerging Man, Harlem, New York, 1952. Gelatin silver print. The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at Stanford University, 2019.47.30
In the Midwest in the 1930s, Gordon Parks was a young railroad porter who would gather magazines that passengers left behind and study the photographs carefully.
He’d focus on images of migrant workers, taken by Farm Security Administration photographers documenting the social and economic plight of Americans during the Depression.