Gordon Parks
Red Jackson
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October 5, 04:08 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Gordon Parks
1912 - 2006
Red Jackson
gelatin silver print, signed in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Howard Greenberg Gallery label on the reverse, 1948, printed later
image: 10⅜ by 7⅝ in. (26.2 by 19.4 cm.)
frame: 21⅝ by 17⅝ in. (55 by 45 cm.)
Gordon Parks, “Harlem Gang Leader,” LIFE, 1 November 1948, p. 96
Gordon Parks: Collected Works Vol. II (Göttingen, 2012), p. 25
Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument (Göttingen, 2013), p. 12
Gordon Parks (London, 2014), cover
Gordon Parks: I am you. Selected Works 1942 - 1978 (Göttingen, 2016), p. 53
"Red Jackson’s life is one of fear, frustration, and violence," wrote Gordon Parks about the then seventeen-year-old gang leader he spent six weeks photographing. Parks' photographs were published in the 1 November 1948 issue of LIFE magazine, marking the beginning of a decades-long relationship with the publication. It was originally planned that an image from "Harlem Gang Leader" would illustrate the cover of LIFE. The editors selected an image of Red Jackson holding a smoking gun, which Parks denounced. As a result, he lost the cover and his first photo-essay for LIFE ran somewhat buried within the magazine.
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