{"id":1536,"date":"2017-06-16T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T10:37:56","slug":"gordon-parks-i-am-you-selected-works-1942-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/2017\/06\/gordon-parks-i-am-you-selected-works-1942-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Parks &#8211; I Am You. Selected works 1942 &#8211; 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Commissioned by <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foam.org\/nl\/home\">Foam\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<br \/>\n<\/strong>16 June &#8211; 6 September 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curators<\/strong><br \/>\nFelix Hoffman, C\/O Berlin. The exhibition was initiated by C\/O Berlin.<br \/>\nKim Knoppers, Foam<\/p>\n<p>The camera can be a powerful weapon against repression, racism, violence, and inequality. The legendary American photographer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) used photography to expose the deep divisions in American society.\u00a0He described his camera as his \u201cweapon of choice.\u201d\u00a0Parks was an important champion of equal rights for African Americans and in his work addressed themes such as poverty, marginalisation and injustice. Aside from his iconic portraits of legends like Martin Luther King, he especially achieved fame through his photographic essays for the prestigious\u00a0<em>Life Magazine\u00a0<\/em>and films he directed, such as\u00a0<em>The Learning Tree<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Shaft<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gordon Parks &#8211;\u00a0 I Am You. Selected Works 1942-1978<\/em>\u00a0presents the work of a fabulous storyteller. Parks carved out a place for underexposed topics during a turbulent time in the United States. He stands out for his open attitude to the various groups making up a fiercely divided America. Through the striking narrative imagery of his photos and his films,\u00a0 Parks managed to connect with a wide and diverse audience.\u00a0With the exhibition\u00a0<em>Gordon Parks &#8211;\u00a0 I Am You. Selected Works 1942-1978,\u00a0<\/em>Foam presents 120 works from the collection of \u00a0The Gordon Parks Foundation, including vintage prints, contact sheets, magazines, and film excerpts.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Parks is best known for his black and white photographs, but he also produced a lot of work in colour. The exhibition includes many colour photographs as well as portraits, documentary photos and fashion photography. Excerpts from Parks\u2019s films\u00a0<em>The Learning Tree\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Shaft<\/em>\u00a0are also shown, which, in combination with the contact sheets and magazines containing his work, portray the social and political context in which he worked. It was a time in American history in which the African-American call for equality rocked the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commissioned by Foam\u00a0 Date 16 June &#8211; 6 September 2017 Curators Felix Hoffman, C\/O Berlin. The exhibition was initiated by [&hellip;]\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/2017\/06\/gordon-parks-i-am-you-selected-works-1942-1978\/\">>>><\/a><\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}