Two new exhibits have arrived at [The Getty](http://www.getty.edu). Both tell history with photography, one through capturing an intimate moment and the other through documenting the passage of time. The exhibits will be on display for a limited time, from now until November 10th.
_Gordon Parks: The Flavio Story_, courtesy of The Getty
### **_Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story_**
In 1961, Gordon Parks was tasked by _Life_ to document poverty in Brazil through photographs of impoverished fathers. But when Parks arrived in Brazil, he was instead enraptured by a destitute, asthmatic child: Flávio da Silva. Parks visited Flávio’s favela home and captured intimate moments between the child and his pregnant mother, kerosene-selling father, and seven siblings. “Freedom’s Fearful Foe: Poverty” was a success despite controversy in Brazil, partly due to Parks’s tender sympathy for his subject.
_Once. Again. Photographs in Series_, courtesy of The Getty
### **_Once. Again. Photographs in Series_**
How do photographs reflect time in a still image? The photo-essays on display feature people and places changing over days, months, and years. These artworks invite us to question how time affects our perception of physical space.
