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This weekly post has everything you need for completing this week’s self-paced content and readings, plus an outline at the end for what’s covered during class meetings. This week is about social and technological influences on depictions of race in U.S. photojournalism, with a focus on the 1960s Civil Rights movement and today.<\/p>\n

Gordon Parks<\/h3>\n

One of this week’s readings, an essay by John Edwin Mason<\/a>, directly follows his essay from last week about the photos used to represent protests in Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd in May 2020. This reading goes back in time to highlight the work of Gordon Parks, one of the most influential Black photographers in the U.S. during the 20th Century.<\/p>\n

\nParks learned to contain his anger and channel it into his work as a photographer, writer, and, decades later, a filmmaker. During the 20 years that he spent as the only African American on the staff at Life<\/em>, he produced nearly a dozen lengthy photo essays that brought the reality of American racism home to the magazine’s millions of mostly white, mostly middle-class readers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watch this short video to get a sense of how Gordon Parks talked about his own work:<\/p>\n