Ralph ellison

After the colossal success of “Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison struggled for 40 years to finish his second novel, “Juneteenth.”

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man became a classic of American literature. While many critics recognized its quality when it came out in 1952, a Pulitzer Fiction juror went out of his way to trash the book.

Breaking with the dominant literary styles among Black writers at the time, the author expanded the limits of realism to create a world that was, and remains, all too familiar.

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Before he became a writer, Ralph Ellison was an emerging photographer. Rarely-seen documentary images, gathered in a forthcoming book, reveal his lifelong engagement with the camera.

Two lost photo essays, now on display at the Art Institute, go beyond racial stereotypes to reveal the real life of Harlem.

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Elegantly dressed for the church on a Sunday, a mother and her daughter are posing underneath a bright red neon sign reading COLORED ENTRANCE. The powerful phot

The Gordon Parks Foundation permanently preserves the work of Gordon Parks, makes it available to the public through exhibitions, books, and electronic media and supports artistic and educational activities that advance what Gordon described as "the common search for a better life and a better world." The Foundation is a division of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation.