It wasn¹t simply that Parks photographed the statue of Lincoln. He
photographed the Black custodians cleaning the statue and the building. He
did it for the same reason DDB says he did, because it looked ironic
seeing a statue of the man who freed Black people from slavery being
cleaned by Black workers.
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On 7/9/14 7:43 PM, "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 7/9/2014 3:58 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Gordon Parks did it 50 years ago.
>
>So? This one of David Dyer-Bennet's, at only 39, is somehow diminished by
>Gordon's?
>
>I'm sure there are endless excellent shots of the memorial. This seems
>quite a fine one to me, and not in need of being
>dissed or dismissed because someone else also made a fine one.
>
>That may not have been your intent, but it's how your pithy post came
>across to me.
>
>Gordon Parks was a man of many parts. I had the pleasure of having dinner
>at a table with him (a couple of times?) at
>fund raisers. A very pleasant fellow to chat with. I don't recall any
>photography talk. The context was humanitarianism
>and human rights, for which he was receiving an award at one dinner, not
>photography. I had the impression that
>photography was a past part of his life to him.
>
>Umbrage Moose
>
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