Category: Gordon Parks

News from the MFAH Photography Department from Curator Malcolm Daniel November, 2022

Posted on Nov 29, 2022

Dear Friends of the MFAH Photography Department, With Thanksgiving at hand, my colleagues in the Department and I have much to be thankful for, and you’re a big part of it. It’s a privilege to help shepherd one of the world’s great photography collections…

A Photographic Mother's Day

Posted on May 13, 2012

  A Happy Mother's Day to all of our blog readers out there!  In celebration, enjoy a selection of appropriately themed photographs ? and then call your mother! Elliot Erwitt: Mother and Child, New York City   Ida Wyman: Mama, Papa, Billy   a     Edward…

LIFE Magazine Turns 75!

Posted on Nov 23, 2011

  Today marks the 75th anniversary of LIFE magazine being in print, and as such they have a couple of great "Best-of" lists going on at their website.  Whenever I think of LIFE it is inevitably the iconic photographs that have been produced in it's tenure…