Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.
just learning about gordon parks in my online photog class. I guess I sort of knew there was color photography starting in the 1930s, but it’s still really startling to see images from that time and through the 50s in color.
(Source: reginasworld, via morecourage-deactivated20130115)
