Gordon Parks

oversized print, signed in ink on the image, flush-mounted, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1953, printed circa 1994

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 1994

New York, Thread Waxing Space, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl, September - October 1996, and 8 other national and international venues through 1999 (see Appendix 1)

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008

Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009, and 2 other Asian venues through 2011 (see Appendix 1)

Marianne Courville, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl (New York, 1996), pl. 61 (this print)

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 173 and 273 (this print)

This oversized photograph, flush-mounted to foamcore, is in generally excellent condition. The edges of the print are very lightly rubbed.
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‘And there were the churches, big ones, little and middle-sized ones scattered among the taverns, butcher shops and mortuaries.  On Sunday mornings, I turned my camera on those ardently religious folks as they went in, in their Sunday best, to the store-front Bethels, God in Christs, African Methodists and Pilgrim Baptists that they kept going with pennies, nickels, and dimes.  “Religion is all we got left,” an old missionary woman told me one day. . .’ (Gordon Parks, A Choice of Weapons, p. 213).