Inside the lost photos of Gordon Parks

Gordon Park’s courageous photography helped awaken America at the dawn of the civil rights era. He was a master of portraying people from every walk of life. But for years some of Parks’ most important early work seemed lost. Now, as Anthony Mason reports, a new generation of Americans can see it for themselves.

[RossJukesPhotography]

What a great photographer and an all round great man...

[crooningleftovers]

The daring, caring genius of Gordon Parks!

[janicethornton]

This story brought tears to my eyes! All of the photos in the 1956 Life Magazine story One Man's Story were of my children's family. The couple on the first page were their Great Grand parents. I didn't know about the article until sometimes after 1972 when I asked my father-in-law. I made it my mission to find the magazine!!

[CRJines]

Gordon is one of my top three documentary photographers. A true artist

[halifax]

I am proud of Mr. Parks' works too!!! Thank you for sharing this video.

[MrFalconford]

i'll always remember you this way g p thank you for sharing your work

[raamenstallings]

Wonderful video on this historic person

[JuanRivera-gxyy]

They weren't lost, Life Magazine was hiding them, how can they have over 100, 000 pictures of Eugene Smith, and only have found 200 color slides of Gordon Parks.

[AldermanFredCDavis]

I know it's difficult to impossible to tell from a computer screen, however, there appears to be amazing clarity and detail in those slides, given that they were shot on 35mm film (a small the 1950's.

[hockeygirl]

Do you know what’s really vivid? Living life in the segregated south as a second class citizen.

[PhotoLabMP]

This tells me to go out and buy a good camera and just start taking photos of everything.

[jeremiahwoodsi]

Watch it Parks they are still Morton's brand Sodium (salty) as we say in the hood, Salty over the fact he may have dated Gloria Vanderbilt or not and his sons movie Superfly