30 Black and White Photos That Show Beautiful Beach Fashions of the Early 1950s

Known internationally as a photographer of social justice issues, Gordon Parks was also a celebrated fashion photographer for magazine such as LIFE, Vogue and Glamour. In 1940, at the age of 28, Gordon Parks walked into Frank Murphy s fashion department store in St. Paul, Minnesota. A selftaught photographer with no formal experience in fashion work, he boldly offered his services to photograph models wearing the store s fashions. After some initial disagreement between the husbandwife coowners, Parks w