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Eggs gathered by a student, Bethune-Cookman College

  • $85.00

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SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

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SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

Add Custom Frame

SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

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SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

While working with the FSA, Parks honed his photographic ethos and style, permeating his practice with powerful images that explored civil rights, the socioeconomic impact of racism, and Black American life. He shot Eggs gathered by a student, Bethune-Cookman College in 1943 while on assignment at Bethune-Cookman College—a private, historically-black university in Daytona Beach, Florida. As the title suggests, this image pictures the hands of a student collecting eggs at the school farm. The agricultural program tasked students with tending to chickens, cows, hogs, and other animals, teaching functional, efficient farming methods in the process. In his photograph, Parks commemorates that endeavor with respect, and the result is seriously striking.

The eggs are in sharp focus, a shallow depth of field blurring the hay-strewn background. This keeps the attention on the fragile beauty of those gleaming shells, the subtle, gorgeous variation in their grays. Parks caught the crisp shadows cast by the midday light, creating a contrast-rich image that elevates something as simple as an egg to an object of splendor, the gathering of them to an art-form. Two brown hands steady the smooth ovoids on a platter, custodians of their eggish elegance. The hands are strong but feminine, and a swath of what looks like a corduroy skirt further suggests the student pictured is a woman. The eggs are the spoils of her efforts and symbols of self-nourishment. Parks’ close-up composition and considerate minimalism in capturing Eggs gathered by a student, Bethune-Cookman College reflect the care put into the program and the college’s intention to educate its students and arm them with practical knowledge ... More on the blog!

+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

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Edition Structure:
8"x8" | edition of 10
11"x11" | edition of 200
16"x16" | edition of 25
20"x20" | edition of 10
30"x30" | edition of 5