Gordon Parks is the master of shooting black people. We've still got the problem today, especially with the darkest skin tones: the lighting is almost always wrong.
Gordon Parks shot mostly b/w, but moved to color film, late in life, bringing with him that Rembrandt-like grasp of tone.
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