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In this video, Naeem Douglas, a content producer for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, talks about the history behind the artistic friendship and collaborations between photographer Gordon Parks and author Ralph Ellison. This series of photographs shot by Parks was inspired by Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man.
“I got something out of being a teacher, I had to make things understood, and that put me in the class of poets who wanted to be understood,” says Robert Frost in this rare 1952 interview for NBC with Bela Kornitzer, in which the renowned poet speaks about his childhood, early publishing career, and the development of his craft, and reads two of his poems: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Drumlin Woodchuck.”
