Washington, D.C. Government charwoman by Gordon Parks
See the great piece written by John Edwin Mason that was posted on 20×200 – http://20×200.com/blogs/news/88418820-new-introducing-gordon-parks-with-john-edwin-mason
More About John Edwin Mason
John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia. He has published extensively on South African social history and the history of photography in Africa. His most recent book, One Love, Ghoema Beat, combined archival research and his own photography to explore the past and present of the New Year’s carnival in Cape Town, South Africa. He is now writing a book about the American photographer, Gordon Parks.
