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Gordon Parks
Langston Hughes, Chicago, December 1941, printed later
gelatin silver print
image: 37.5 x 38.1 cm (14 3/4 x 15 in.)
sheet: 41 x 50.5 cm (16 1/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Trapped in abandoned building by a rival gang on street, Red Jackson ponders his next move, 1948
gelatin silver print
image: 49.2 x 39.7 cm (19 3/8 x 15 5/8 in.)
sheet: 50.6 x 40.8 cm (19 15/16 x 16 1/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan (Bert Collins and Pauline Terry), 1950, printed later
gelatin silver print
image: 25.4 x 31.4 cm (10 x 12 3/8 in.)
sheet: 28.3 x 35.4 cm (11 1/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Pastor Ledbetter, Chicago, 1953, printed later
gelatin silver print
image: 72.7 x 103.5 cm (28 5/8 x 40 3/4 in.)
framed: 75.9 x 104.3 x 3.8 cm (29 7/8 x 41 1/16 x 1 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Duke Ellington Listening to Playback, Los Angeles, 1960, printed later
gelatin silver print
image: 46.7 x 32.7 cm (18 3/8 x 12 7/8 in.)
sheet: 50.5 x 41 cm (19 7/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
mat: 61 x 50.5 cm (24 x 19 7/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Malcolm X Addressing Black Muslim Rally in Chicago, 1963, printed later
gelatin silver print
image: 56.2 x 41 cm (22 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
sheet: 60.6 x 51.1 cm (23 7/8 x 20 1/8 in.)
mat: 76.4 x 60.7 cm (30 1/16 x 23 7/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Muhammad Ali, 1966, printed later
gelatin silver print
sheet: 50.5 x 40.8 cm (19 7/8 x 16 1/16 in.)
image: 47 x 37.2 cm (18 1/2 x 14 5/8 in.)
mat: 61 x 51.5 cm (24 x 20 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Flavio da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, 1961
gelatin silver print
image: 34 x 23.4 cm (13 3/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Muhammad Ali, London, 1966
gelatin silver print
image: 33.8 x 23 cm (13 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Self-Portrait, 1941
gelatin silver print
image/sheet: 50.4 x 40.8 cm (19 13/16 x 16 1/16 in.)
mount: 70.2 x 55.3 cm (27 5/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of Alan and Marsha Paller, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Marc Andreessen via the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Raj and Indra Nooyi, Mitchell P. Rales, David M. Rubenstein, and Darren Walker in honor of Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Government Charwoman (American Gothic), July 1942
gelatin silver print
image: 34 x 26.5 cm (13 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
sheet: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Images may not be bled, cropped, guttered, overprinted or altered in any other way without approval from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Gordon Parks: Camera Portraits from the Corcoran Collection

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