Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks June 19, 2009

Experience iconic images of the 20th century, from moving photographs chronicling the devastating grip of poverty and the arduous struggle for civil rights to powerful portraits of social and cultural leaders such as Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and Leonard Bernstein, all captured through the camera lens of pioneering African American artist Gordon Parks. A celebrated film director, author, poet, composer as well as a photojournalist, the barrier-breaking Parks selected the 73 photographs in this exhibition as his most powerful imagery before his death in 2006.