LaToya Ruby Frazier
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LaToya Ruby Frazier is an American artist.
LaToya Ruby Frazier at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2024
La Toye Ruby Frazier Look 3 2011 Ramspott
Shea Brushing Zion's Teeth with Bottled Water in Her Bathroom, Flint, Michigan (2016-2017), from the series Flint is Family, at the National Portrait Gallery in 2022
Gordon Parks
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particula
LaToya Ruby Frazier
…and Dorothea Lange to imagine documentation from within and by the community, and collaboration between the photographer and her subjects. Inspired by Gordon Parks, who promoted the camera as a weapon for social justice, Frazier uses her tight focus to make apparent the impact of systemic problems, from racism to…
Parks in 1984
American Gothic, Washington, D.C. – a well-known photograph by Parks
A later photograph in Parks' FSA series shows Ella Watson and her family.
Gordon Parks next to his piano, photograph by David Finn (late 1980s)