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What kind of photos is Parks best remembered for?

  • Poor Americans during the 1940s

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  • Nature

  • Cityscapes

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Parks is best remembered for her photos of poor Americans during the 1940s. She documented the lives of sharecroppers and other rural poor people, and her work helped to raise awareness of their plight. She also took photos of urban poor people, and her work helped to show the harsh conditions that many people lived in.
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