--- title: John Edwin Mason | TIME description: John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia. He is writing a book about Gordon Parks. canonical: https://time.com/author/john-edwin-mason/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/john-edwin-mason/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # John Edwin Mason ## John Edwin Mason [John Edwin Mason](http://history.virginia.edu/user/38) teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia. He is writing a book about Gordon Parks. ## John Edwin Mason *  Feb 22, 2019 ### [These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell](https://time.com/5533041/wayne-miller-pot-luck/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 26, 2017 ### [How a Photographer Illuminated the Plight of the 'Invisible Poor'](https://time.com/4968076/jill-freedman-resurrection-city-photos/) Jill Freedman's photographs of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign capture the plight of the people who ... *  May 20, 2016 ### [Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison: How a Man 'Becomes Invisible'](https://time.com/4328189/gordon-parks-and-ralph-ellison-how-a-man-becomes-invisible/) Photographer Gordon Parks' collaborations with Ralph Ellison are the subject of a new exhibition at ... *  Apr 8, 2016 ### [How Gordon Parks' Photographs Implored White America to See Black Humanity](https://time.com/4200148/gordon-parks-photographs-black-humanity/) The LIFE photographer's work, on view at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, made ... *  Aug 28, 2015 ### [Ingrid Bergman: How a Photograph Never Made Led to Her Most Memorable Portrait](https://time.com/3998559/ingrid-bergman-gordon-parks-stromboli/) When LIFE photographer Gordon Parks decided not to snap his shutter on the Swedish-born actress--who... *  Feb 11, 2015 ### [The Photos That Gave Americans Their First Glimpse of Apartheid in 1950](https://time.com/3668247/apartheid-photo-essay-life/) On the 25th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from prison, a historian examines the LIFE photo... *  Jan 29, 2015 ### ['Wow, Quel Babes!': American Teenagers in Paris in the 1950s](https://time.com/3659717/american-teenagers-paris/) They scorned frog legs, drank Coca-Cola and studied Parisian charm. LIFE photographer Gordon Parks c... *  Sep 21, 2014 ### [Revisiting Gordon Parks' Classic Photo Essay, 'Harlem Gang Leader'](https://time.com/3461593/revisiting-gordon-parks-classic-photo-essay-harlem-gang-leader/) A new exhibition examines Gordon Parks' vision of what "Harlem Gang Leader" could have been and the ... Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/john-edwin-mason/","name":"John Edwin Mason"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/john-edwin-mason/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/john-edwin-mason/"},"name":"John Edwin Mason","jobTitle":null,"description":"John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia. He is writing a book about Gordon Parks.","url":"https://time.com/author/john-edwin-mason/","sameAs":["https://x.com/johnedwinmason"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```