[Photograph, title supplied]: Woman in Two Piece Bathing Suit

Published by Gordon Parks for Life Magazine, 1953

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Gelatin silver photograph. Approximately 7¾" x 9¾". Image of an African-American woman in a white two-piece bathing suit standing on the bow of a small sail boat holding a tension wire in one hand with the shore visible in the distance. Contemporary stamp on verso: "Life Photo by Gordon Parks" with a blue pencil notation ("#217 S") in an unknown hand. Fine, with the tonal contrast of the image crisp and bright. Parks was the first Black photographer to work on the staff of *Life* magazine, covering everything from Paris fashion to the Civil Rights Movement. He is generally considered to have made a major contribution to fashion photography during his time with *Life*, from 1948 to 1968, before going on to be the first Black director of a major Hollywood film *The Learning Tree* in 1969.

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Title
[Photograph, title supplied]: Woman in Two Piece Bathing Suit
Author
PARKS, Gordon
Publisher
Gordon Parks for Life Magazine
Publication year
1953
Condition
Fine
Binding
Unbound
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African-Americana, Ephemera, Photography

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