I found an article on the photographer Gordon Parks's subtle yet powerful images during the civil rights movement. These images are interesting because they are different from the others being produced at the time; they are described as an 'alternative approach' to the civil rights movement. Parks focused on the day to day activities of African Americans during a racially hostile period in America. This effect was powerful, in that he focused on the emotion of 'empathy.' African Americans were fraught with an immense amount of conflict during this time, but Parks's images symbolize a peacefulness, a normality, a day to day existence that African American's yearned to live in peacefully and freely.
by Isabelle Hay
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