Judy Collins & Rosa Parks 1984
- SIGNED
- [Chicago: Richard Gordon, c. 1984]
[Chicago: Richard Gordon, c. 1984]. Original silver-gelatin print on matte photographic paper. Image area 8" x 12", on 11" x 14" sheet. Titled in ink in lower left margin; signed in ink lower right beneath image. Fine, unfaded print in a hinged gallery mat.
A lovely profile portrait of Parks in conversation with American folk singer and activist Judy Collins. Likely from the 1984 Candace Award ceremony, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Candace Award was a prize given to African-American women of distinction by The National Coalition of 100 Black Women over a ten-year period between 1982 and 1996; the 1984 prize was shared between five women, all pioneers in the American civil rights struggle of the 1950s-60s. Photographer Richard Gordon (1945-2012) became well-known for his studies of New York shop windows in the 1960s; he published half a dozen monographs and his works are widely held, including at SFMoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Corcoran among many others.
A lovely profile portrait of Parks in conversation with American folk singer and activist Judy Collins. Likely from the 1984 Candace Award ceremony, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Candace Award was a prize given to African-American women of distinction by The National Coalition of 100 Black Women over a ten-year period between 1982 and 1996; the 1984 prize was shared between five women, all pioneers in the American civil rights struggle of the 1950s-60s. Photographer Richard Gordon (1945-2012) became well-known for his studies of New York shop windows in the 1960s; he published half a dozen monographs and his works are widely held, including at SFMoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Corcoran among many others.