Gordon Parks took these carefully posed photographs of Helen Frankenthaler set in an enclosure of her already famous early paintings in 1956 for a spread in LIFE magazine on up and coming young painters who happened to be women in a field supposedly then dominated by two fisted males. Joan Mitchell (an artist I actually admire even more than Frankenthaler) was also profiled in the piece but she was photographed by the less masterful Loomis Dean. Parks makes Frankenthaler appear very much of a piece with her work. Looking at these pictures one gets the sense that she lives inside her paintings.
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