APA DC - Gordon Parks: Camera Portraits - Private Exhibition Tour

We are thrilled to announce a private tour of the Gordon Parks: Camera Portraits from the Corcoran Collection exhibition at National Gallery of Art on Tuesday, August 20th at 2pm. This private event is for DC members of APA only. 

Meet us in front of the exhibit in the West Building on the Ground Floor - Gallery G22.
This private tour is with the exhibition curator Sarah Greenough and begins promptly at 2pm.

Registration is required and membership will be confirmed.
Registration opens on August 1st.

Limited capacity.

About the exhibition:
Gordon Parks: Camera Portraits looks at a celebrated American photographer and how he forged a new mode of portraiture after World War II. Parks blended a documentary photographer’s desire to place his subjects where they lived and worked with a studio photographer’s attention to dress, character, and expression. In doing so, he believed he could create portraits of individuals that addressed their cultural significance. He applied this approach to such American icons as boxer Muhammad Ali and conductor Leonard Bernstein, as well as to a Harlem gang leader and to a Detroit couple, revealing the humanity and cultural dignity of each person.

This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Corcoran Collection, presents some 25 portraits Parks made between 1941 and 1970. Explore Parks's innovations in portraiture through some of his best-known photographs. Learn how his portraits speak to larger stories of the civil rights movement, the African American experience, and American culture.

Flyer photograph caption & credit: Gordon Parks, Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan (Bert Collins and Pauline Terry), 1950, printed later, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection), 2016.117.150

National Gallery of Art is located on the National Mall in at 6th St and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20565. The exhibition is located in the West Building on the Ground Floor - Gallery G22. Enter or exit from Constitution Avenue, 4th Street, or 7th Street. The Madison Drive entrance is currently closed.

It is accessible by Metro, bike, and car. Parking garages nearby and street parking available close by. 

• 5 min walk to Yellow-Green lines: Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter
• 13 min walk to Blue-Orange-Silver lines: Federal Triangle & Smithsonian 
• 17 min walk to Red line: Judiciary Square

By registering for this event, you are indicating that you have chosen to voluntarily participate in an activity offered through American Photographic Artists DC Chapter and are voluntarily agreeing to the following: https://www.apadc.com/liability-information