Parishioner

Gordon Parks

1988

  • Titles Parishioner (Title)
  • Artist Gordon Parks, American, 1912 - 2006
  • Medium silver print
  • Dimensions image: 13 1/8 x 19 1/4 in. (33.3 x 48.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Commissioned by THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS for THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS CENTENNIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION at the Birmingham Museum of Art, 1988.5.11, image Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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