Parishioners

Gordon Parks

1988

  • Titles Parishioners (Title)
  • Artist Gordon Parks, American, 1912 - 2006
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions image: 13 1/4 x 19 in. (33.7 x 48.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Commissioned by THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS for THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS CENTENNIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION at the Birmingham Museum of Art, 1988.5.9, image Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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