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Books: How Photographer Gordon Parks Revolutionized Crime Narratives

By David Schonauer   Wednesday September 2, 2020


In 1957, Gordon Parks found a new way to view crime.

A staff photographer at Life magazine for nearly a decade, Parks was assigned to follow police officers through the streets of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. The goal was to document what the magazine would eventually …


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