The Firebrand, the Photographer, and Black Power Converge MFAH
In the fall of 1966, Stokely Carmichael was a 25-year-old rising star in the the movement and struggle for civil rights and racial equality in the United States. And he was a smart, focused and powerful speaker and organizer.Photo © The Gordon Parks Foundation.
A generation removed from Carmichael, Gordon Parks was a 53-year-old essayist and photographer. And the only Black man taking pictures for the then-dominating national periodicalHis lens had already captured both Malcom X and Muhammad Ali. His assignment—whether it was actually voiced or not—was to illuminate through his work Black issues and interests to a largely White readership.
Those five photos, along with 50 additional ones from the more than 700 which Parks shot, and ephemera from both men and the Black Power movement, are the basis of the exhibit. It runs from October 16-January 16 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.“That’s a great question! Let me answer that in a sort of winding way,” says Lisa Volpe, exhibition curator and Associate Curator of Photography at the MFAH.
Volpe adds that the exhibit was organized by the Parks Foundation and has appeared at other major U.S. museums. There’s also an accompanying exhibit here with a Houston-specific focus.
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