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.
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