{"product_id":"gordon-parks-drinking-fountains-mobile-alabama-1956","title":"GORDON PARKS \"DRINKING FOUNTAINS, MOBILE, ALABAMA\" 1956","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGordon Parks (1912-2006) was one of the 20th century's most important photographers, celebrated for his profound contributions to documentary photography and photojournalism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParks used his camera to document American life with a remarkable clarity, compassion, and honesty. As the first African American staff photographer at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLife\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine, he produced some of the defining images of the Civil Rights era while expanding the possibilities of documentary photography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhotographed in 1956, \"\u003c\/span\u003eDrinking Fountains, Mobile, Alabama\"\u003cspan\u003e was made during Parks' assignment documenting racial segregation in the American South. The black-and-white photograph captures two segregated drinking fountains, using their stark juxtaposition to reveal the unvarnished realities of Jim Crow laws.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParks conveyed the quiet indignities of racial discrimination with remarkable precision and humanity, preserving quotidian scenes into enduring documents of social history. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOriginally made for \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e magazine's essay \u003cem\u003eThe Restraints: Open and Hidden\u003c\/em\u003e, this photograph remains one of the defining visual records of the American Civil Rights era.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGordon Parks' work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress, among many others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestions about this piece? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:troy@caviar20.com\"\u003eContact us\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, call +1.416.704.1720, or\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/pages\/contact\"\u003evisit our Toronto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Drinking Fountains, Mobile, Alabama\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUSA, 1956\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGelatin silver print\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigned by the executive director, dated, with Gordon Parks Foundation stamp, verso\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e11\"H 14\"W (sheet)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17\"H 20.75\"W (framed)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good condition\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caviar20","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47831792287980,"sku":"06-26","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/2712\/files\/Caviar20_Gordon-Parks-Drinking-Fountains-1956_01.jpg?v=1782846730","url":"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/products\/gordon-parks-drinking-fountains-mobile-alabama-1956","provider":"Caviar20","version":"1.0","type":"link"}