May 21 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibition reunites for the first time the surviving photographs and texts intended for the two projects, including never-before-seen photographs by Parks from the collections of the Art Institute and the Gordon Parks Foundation and unpublished manuscripts by Ellison. Revealed in these frank depictions of Harlem is Ellison and Parks’s symbiotic insistence on making race a larger, universal issue, finding an alternative, productive means of representing African American life, and importantly, staking a claim for the black individual within—rather than separate from—the breadth of American culture.
Dates:May 21, 2016 10:00 am to August 28, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:111 S. Michigan Ave. , Chicago, Illinois 60603, United States
Phone:312-443-3600
Contact:Art Institute of Chicago
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