Elijah Muhammad's Daughter, Ethel Sharrieff, Chicago, Gordon Parks

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Gordon Parks, Elijah Muhammad's Daughter, Ethel Sharrieff, Chicago
Gordon Parks, Elijah Muhammad's Daughter, Ethel Sharrieff, Chicago
Gordon Parks
Elijah Muhammad's Daughter, Ethel Sharrieff, Chicago
1963
Gordon Parks
1912–2006
Elijah Muhammad's Daughter, Ethel Sharrieff, Chicago, 1963
Portfolio/Series title: "'The white devil's day is almost over,'" published in LIFE magazine, May 31, 1963
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 20 x 16 0.9843 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Friends of the Art Museum
Accession number: 1993.0050
Not on display
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Archive Label: Gordon Parks has enjoyed a long and successful career as an artist, working in poetry, fiction, autobiography, film, and ballet as well as in the medium for which he is best known, photography. During the 1940s he made photographs for the Farm Security Administration and the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, projects that documented American life during that time. He joined the staff of Life magazine in 1949 as its first African-American photographer, working in France, the United States, and Brazil. He retired from Life in the early 1970s and now makes film, writes, paints, and composes music, in addition to his photography.