Gordon Parks : A Harlem Family 1967 offers a fresh look at a landmark series by an iconic American artist. In the fall of 1967, artist and photojournalist Gordon Parks spent a month photographing the everyday lives of the Fontenelles, an impoverished Harlem family. Parks included twentysix works from the Fontenelle series in "A Harlem Family", a photo essay published in Lift magazine in March 1968, as part of a special section exploring race and poverty in American cities. Commemorating the November 2012 centennial of Parks's birth, this volume, along with an exhibition of the same name at The Studio Museum in Harlem, presents the photographs originally featured in Life, as well as dozens more from this important series - many never before shown, or even printed. A searing portrait of poverty in the United States, the Fontenelle photographs provide an intimate view of a neighborhood - and a nation - at a turbulent moment in time.