Ha Jai Bang & Gordon Parks!

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It doesn't make ANY sense to only have a half of a meeting for each of these brilliant artists ... but we did! Hahah! Ha Jai Bang was featured in Jerry's show on Saturday & Gordon Parks is one of my favorite photographers, artistic historians, and filmmakers; so we looked at the work of these two phenomenal artists and we will again. 

Top of the Day is this photograph by Gordon Parks of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Sr in Mobile Alabama beneath their wedding photo.  Mr Thornton is 82, the son of a slave, a sharecropper & independent farmer. Part of "Background of Segregation" series.


Ha Jai Bang, In the Middle of the Source, 1994 -- link -- 

Ha Jai Bang, Without Title, 1974 -- link -- 

Ha Jai Bang,  Particles of Light, 2007 -- link -- 

Gordon Parks, Department Store, Mobile Alabama, 1956 -- link -- 

Gordon Parks, Untitled, Mobile Alabama, 1956 -- link -- 

Gordon Parks, Mr & Mrs Albert Thornton, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 -- link -- 

Gordon Parks, Sydney Poitier & Juanita Hardy for Life Magazine, 1959 -- link -- 

Photographer unknown, Gordon Parks with Muhammad Ali & others, London, England, (from left to right: Angelo or Chris Dundee, sparring partner Jimmy Ellis, Muhammad Ali, Gordon Parks, and Jim Brown), 1966 -- link -- 

Gordon Parks, Actress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski in costume for Molnar's play, "The Swan," 1954 -- link -- 

Gordon Parks, Picasso Sculptures in front of Guernica, no date -- link -- 

Amaaaaaaazing photos of Muhammad Ali by Gordon Parks for Life Magazine, 1966 -- link -- 






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