Stunning images depicting life in segregated Mobile, Ala., in the mid-1950s have resurfaced after decades in storage.
Famed photographer Gordon Parks documented the lives of three families living in Mobile, Alabama in 1956. The images he captured were rediscovered shortly after his death in 2012 and are now on display sat the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.
The photographs were originally shot for a Life magazine photo essay titled “The Restraints: Open and Hidden.” Parks would later become well known for shooting such famous individuals as Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Barbra Streisand and for directing films, including Shaft. The Daily Mail noted that the “series represents one of Parks’ earliest social documentary studies on color film.”
Check out the images below.
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