Gordon Parks

In January 1944, during the height of World War II, Gordon Parks photographed Herklas Brown—the owner of the general store and Esso gas station in Somerville, Maine. Parks traveled to the state under the auspices of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) (SONJ) to record SONJ's contributions to the war effort and to document the home front in this crucial...

This new edition of Gordon Parks' Segregation Story includes several never-before-published photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks' original transparencies. A selection of 26 images from Segregation Story first appeared in the 24th September 1956 issue of Life magazine as part of the photo-essay "The Restraints: Open and Hidden." Although some of these were exhibited during his lifetime,...