Gordon Parks
Untitled (Shady Grove, Alabama)
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October 5, 04:07 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Gordon Parks
1912 - 2006
Untitled (Shady Grove, Alabama)
archival pigment print, The Gordon Parks Foundation copyright stamp, signed and dated by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Executive Director, in pencil, on the reverse, framed, a printed label on the reverse, 1956, printed posthumously in 2012, no. one in an edition of 15
image: 13¾ by 13¾ in. (34.8 by 34.8 cm.)
frame: 23⅛ by 22⅞ in. (58.8 by 58.1 cm.)
Gordon Parks: Collected Works Vol. III (Göttingen, 2012), p. 36
Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, 2014), unpaginated
Following the 1955 murder of Emmett Till and bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, LIFE magazine sent Gordon Parks south to document the severity of daily life for African Americans living under Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation. The magazine published 26 of Parks’ photographs in "The Restraints: Open and Hidden," an expansive photo-essay in the 24 September 1956 issue.
The negative for the present photograph was discovered by The Gordon Parks Foundation in 2011 among more than 70 color transparencies from the series in a box labeled "Segregation Story" by Parks. Despite not being in the initial LIFE publication, this photograph has become inseparable from the multitude of "Segregation Story" exhibitions and publications. This is the first time a print of the image has appeared at auction.
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