Seventy years after photographer Gordon Parks documented the segregated South for Life magazine, more than 40 of those photographs are coming to Atlanta. Jackson Fine Art opens “Gordon Parks: The South in Color” on April 2.
The Gordon Parks Foundation, based in New York, organized the exhibition with Jackson Fine Art to mark two milestones: the series’ 70th anniversary and the Foundation’s 20th. Curated by MacArthur Fellow and photographer Dawoud Bey, the show presents 22 images never before seen at the Buckhead gallery.
How ‘The South in Color’ came to Jackson Fine Art
Jackson Fine Art has been presenting images from Gordon Parks’s Segregation Story series since 2012. However, “The South in Color” is the most expansive exhibition of the work that the Buckhead photography gallery has mounted. The show, on view through June 13, includes 22 images the gallery has never shown before.
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