FREE EVENT- National Gallery of Art.

Gordon Parks: Camera Portraits from the Corcoran Collection.

See powerful portraits by one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century.

Gordon Parks: Camera Portraits looks at a celebrated American photographer and how he forged a new mode of portraiture after World War II. Parks blended a documentary photographer’s desire to place his subjects where they lived and worked with a studio photographer’s attention to dress, character, and expression.

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