Gordon Parks: The Flavio Story

$35.00 at The Getty Museum.

The extraordinary story of one Life photo-essay by Gordon Parks and its impact. This book explores a once-popular picture story by Gordon Parks and the extraordinary chain of events it prompted. Published in Life magazine in June 1961 as 'Poverty: Freedom’s Fearful Foe,' this empathetic photo-essay profiled the da Silva family, living in a hillside favela near a wealthy enclave of Rio de Janeiro. Focused primarily on the eldest son Flavio, an industrious 12-year-old suffering from crippling asthma, Parks’…