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Gordon Parks Photos Heading to College

New York Times
Art & Design

Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: June 4, 2009

More than 4,000 prints and 20,000 negatives of the work of the photographer and director Gordon Parks, including “American Gothic,” as well as a collection of images by Mathew Brady and other early American photographers, will be kept at the State University of New York’s Purchase College, the Gordon Parks Foundation said.

Parks, the first black photographer at Life magazine and director of the early blaxploitation film, “Shaft,” died in 2006; the following year, his photography was acquired by the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation, which which will maintain an office at the school to oversee his work, along with 100,000 Civil War-era photographs by Brady, Alexander Gardner and Timothy O’Sullivan, as well as the collection of Ed Clark, another Life photojournalist. Purchase College said that the collections would be housed at its library, where they will be preserved and made available for public view and study.

* The photo by Gordon Parks with this post depicts a charwoman, is titled “American Gothic — Washington, D.C.” and is from the Gordon Parks Foundation (a division of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation).