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Photography's Power in the Civil Rights Movement Had a Tragic Side

By Olivia B. Waxman

Kendrick Lamar Paid Homage to the Iconic Images of Photojournalist Gordon Parks With His 'Element' Video

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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 the Art Institute of Chicago

By John Edwin Mason

How Gordon Parks' Photographs Implored White America to See Black Humanity

The LIFE photographer's work, on view at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, made the struggle against racism more relatable to the magazine's mostly white readers

By John Edwin Mason

Ingrid Bergman: How a Photograph Never Made Led to Her Most Memorable Portrait

When LIFE photographer Gordon Parks decided not to snap his shutter on the Swedish-born actress--who was born 100 years ago on Aug. 29--it paved the way for one of the most treasured portraits of her ever made

By John Edwin Mason

How the Class of 1958 Celebrated ‘Gay Schooltime Memories’

LIFE commemorated the glory days with a group of high school seniors

By Eliza Berman

What To Wear on Your Vacation to Cuba

Inspiration from a 1950s LIFE photo shoot on Cuba's beaches.

By Eliza Berman

See the Cinderella Whose Performance Reached 100 Million Viewers in 1957

Rodgers and Hammerstein's televised Cinderella musical, starring Julie Andrews, was the TV event of the year

By Eliza Berman

'Wow, Quel Babes!': American Teenagers in Paris in the 1950s

They scorned frog legs, drank Coca-Cola and studied Parisian charm. LIFE photographer Gordon Parks captured their carefree European lives, and experienced a new kind of freedom there, as well

By John Edwin Mason

A Lost Story of Segregated America From LIFE's First Black Photographer

In 1950, Gordon Parks traveled to his hometown in Kansas to capture the impact of school segregation in America. The photo essay never ran, but his images and the story behind them have resurfaced after 65 years in obscurity

By Eliza Berman

Photojournalism Daily: Jan. 13, 2015

A compilation of the most interesting photojournalism found on the web, curated by Mikko Takkunen

By Mikko Takkunen

Photojournalism Daily: Nov. 14, 2014

Photojournalism Daily is a compilation of the most interesting photojournalism found on the web, curated by Mikko Takkunen

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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 photo essay as it ran in LIFE magazine.

By John Edwin Mason

Showgirls at Work and at Play: Gordon Parks' Nightclub Portraits

Gordon Parks' pictures of showgirls matter simply because they're beautiful -- and because they offer, as LIFE magazine noted, "living, breathing proof of the poet's point that beauty is its own excuse for being."

By Ben Cosgrove

TIME Special Preview: A Guide to the Best Spring/Summer Photobooks

LightBox presents a special preview of the season's best photography books.

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LIFE in 2012: The Year in 12 Galleries

What do Hillary Clinton (above, in 1969), the Empire State Building, Albert Einstein and drug-addled Japanese teens have in common? Well ... nothing, really. Except that they all appeared on LIFE.com in 2012.

By Liz Ronk

Beyond Boundaries: Gordon Parks’ Fashion Photography

TIME takes a look at the photography of the groundbreaking and multi-talented artist Gordon Parks

By Ben Cosgrove

A Fierce and Tender Eye: Gordon Parks on Poverty's Dire Toll

LIFE.com republishes all of the photos from Gordon Parks' landmark 1961 LIFE magazine photo essay , "Freedom's Fearful Foe: Poverty," about the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

By Ben Cosgrove
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