Gordon Parks
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
archival pigment print
Copyright: ©The Gordon Parks Foundation. Used with permission.
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Gordon Parks' Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton depicts a couple, the family matriarch and her husband, in Mobile, Alabama, in 1956. The work is a lead image of the Life...
Gordon Parks' Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton depicts a couple, the family matriarch and her husband, in Mobile, Alabama, in 1956. The work is a lead image of the Life magazine photo essay, an important life document under Jim Crow segregation.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton is considered a pivotal image in Parks' career. It's an example of his work documenting the lived experience of discrimination and encouraging empathy and understanding between people of different races.
Additionally, it is the opening image in Greenleaf, an executive-produced Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate Television drama series about a Memphis megachurch, Calvary Fellowship World Ministries.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton is considered a pivotal image in Parks' career. It's an example of his work documenting the lived experience of discrimination and encouraging empathy and understanding between people of different races.
Additionally, it is the opening image in Greenleaf, an executive-produced Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate Television drama series about a Memphis megachurch, Calvary Fellowship World Ministries.