“What the camera had to do was expose the evils of racism, the evils of poverty, the discrimination and the bigotry, by showing the people who suffered most under it. That was the way it had to be done.”

— Gordon Parks

Parks was born on this day in 1912.

📷 Ella Watson, 1942 (Library of Congress)

Dancer Mary Ellen Terry, photographed by Gordon Parks, 1952.