The story, which debuted in Life in June of that year, generated empathy and outrage: empathy from the magazine’s U.S. readers, and outrage in Brazil, where critics accused the magazine of wallowing in stereotypes about Latin America.
) gathers images from Parks’ initial report, along with subsequent follow-ups, and displays these alongside the images taken by Henri Ballot in New York for O Cruzeiro.The Getty also invited Da Silva, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, to come see the show that was drawn from his life.
An image from Gordon Parks' report for Life on poverty in Latin America shows the Da Silva family jammed into a small shack in a Rio favela. In the month after the story ran, Parks flew to Brazil to meet with the family and secure permission to bring Da Silva to the U.S. — and from there, the whiplash began. In the course of a single day, the Da Silvas were relocated to their new home — a photo in the exhibition shows them peering through a window, dazed — and Flávio and Parks boarded a flight, bound for an asthma care center in Denver.
A family snapshot shows Flávio da Silva with members of the Gonçalves family, his host family in Denver in 1961.There are also the ways in which Da Silva’s story has been used as political fodder. First, by Life magazine, whose report on poverty in Latin America was motivated not by investigating inequity, but by the Cold War preoccupation that substandard living conditions could generate communists.
Interestingly, in all of these media squabbles no one ever thought to hand Da Silva a camera and ask him to document his own reality. Those truths, perhaps, would have been too difficult to deny.
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