Today you will be writing about this image made by artist and photojournalist Gordon Parks. This image is from a series Parks completed for Life Magazine. Life sent Parks to Alabama in 1956 to document 3 black families during one of the most turbulent times in American history. The project was meant to show how ordinary black families truly lived in the Deep South during 1956, and the images would serve to counter the misinformation spread that a racially segregated society was good for everyone.
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Ryan Kyle
3/1/2018 11:26:58 am
The image is of a black family who is outside of a store drinking water from water fountains. There are two water fountains, one for “colored only” and one for “white only”. This image was taken during very troubling times in the US that were due to racial tensions. This image was also taken in the deep south where not very many black people lived at the time. The image uses a lot of brown and a slight pink tone overall.
Troy Rollwitz
3/1/2018 11:27:31 am
In this image by Gordon Parks we see some black people. It is in the 1950s and there are two water fountains. One is white only and the other is blacks only. There is a child drinking out of the black only one. The image uses a lot of colors, many of which are on the cloths.
Marissa Elizondo
3/1/2018 11:36:17 am
In this image you can see a store that sells ice milk. You can also seven african american people standing in front of the store. You can also see a pole above a the ground that adds leading lines to the image. On the store window, you can see posters with ice-cream on them. You can also see two water fountains. One water fountain says “colored only” and the other says “white only”. The girls are all wearing colorful dresses/skirts.
Marynez Cantu Cardenas
3/1/2018 11:36:33 am
This photograph is by Gordon Parks during the time period of segregation in 1956. The point of this photograph was to make people open their eyes to see that discrimination is not okay in society. Here there is a colored family in a plaza and you can see their little girl drinking out of the colored water fountain and they are nowhere close to the white water fountain.
The image shows a black family, before the time of non-segregation, drinking from a water fountain made for them. The colors in the image are mainly black and white except for the posters in the background. The image by Gordon Parks was using some form of lighting from the sun but mainly, this was on the street. The only people in the image are the black people getting a drink of water.
Larissa Esparza
3/1/2018 11:41:20 am
This image was taken by Gordon Parks. Gordon Parks’s images were meant to show that all people live the same. Black and white people live the same and that there really isn’t a difference between the two races. The images were meant to show that segregation was not good. The image is of a black family of five going through their day stopping at a water fountain to get water that has a sign that says “Blacks only”.
Maria Tirado
3/1/2018 11:43:14 am
This photograph was shot by Gordon Parks, who was an american photographer that was sent to capture some images in Alabama. This project was meant to persuade people’s minds about racial injustices. In this particular image, Parks captured a colored family taking a nice stroll to the ice cream shop. This image is a big contributor to the rest of this project, because there are two seperate water fountains with labels on them. The colored people’s water fountain is not as modern as the whites, and that is because in the 50’s there was still racial segregation in the state of Alabama. This image has a few little girls probably running around with their shoes off, and 3 adults.
Zach Burgos
3/1/2018 11:47:06 am
The image is a picture of a black family(s?) at a racially segregated water fountain. The colors it is using is white, red, blue, yellow, green, and black. The lighting is bright sunlight. There are water fountains that have “colored/white only” signs, ice cream posters, and the people are wearing very nice clothing. A black family(s) is drinking at a racially segregated water fountain in front of an ice cream store.
Mikaela Mumme
3/1/2018 11:48:23 am
In this image, there is a group of African American people and water fountains which can be seen as the focus. They could be a family because it is a man a woman, children, and girl who looks like she's in her teens maybe around seventeen. They are dressed nicely kind of like Sunday church dress. In the background, you can see that they are at two water fountains. On these two water fountains, it says colored and white only. This infers the time frame which would have been the late fifties when there were race inequality and segregation.
Jessica Mims
3/1/2018 04:46:07 pm
This is an image created by Gordon Parks. In the image, we see a black family and the effects that segregation is having on them. The family is standing around two fountains outside of a grocery store. One of the fountains is labeled “White Only”, and the other labeled “Colored Only”. Due to the time in history, the family is gathered around the colored fountain. There are a lot of colors used in this image, but they are kind of faded. This helps to give the image an older feel.
Josh Salehi
3/2/2018 03:00:00 pm
This image by jordan parks production is picture of a black family outside of a grocery store the family shows the little girls walking the streets without shoes. I don’t think they are poor because i can tell because they are wearing nice church clothes and it’s hard to point out why there shoes are off but I think that specific detail brings a lot of questions to this picture and makes the viewer really wonder.
Kate Madison
3/3/2018 07:57:14 am
This image is of a african american family drinking from a “colored only” water fountain in from of a store. The colors in this image are slightly won-out like they’ve been there for decades.The lighting in this image is natural light. Objects in this image are people, shoes, railings, water fountains, poters, a storefront, etc. In this image there are three little african american girls drinking from a water fountain outside of a storefront. Comments are closed.
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