Family’s Day Begins, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, negative 1961, printed later, Gordon Parks. Gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council. © The Gordon Parks Foundation
Two Sides to the Story: Gordon Parks and Henri Ballot
GETTY CENTER
Museum Lecture Hall
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In 1961, Life magazine sent American photographer Gordon Parks to Brazil to report on poverty in Rio de Janeiro. The resulting photo essay prompted the popular Brazilian magazine O Cruzeiro to assign its staff photographer, Henri Ballot, to document poverty in New York City. Sergio Burgi, curator of photographs at Rio de Janiero's Instituto Moreira Salles, examines the work made by these two photographers and how it relates to documentary tradition in photography. Parks’s first film, Flavio, will be screened as part of this program.