[Image Description: Image is a black and white photo of a young black boy standing in front of a wooden structure with signs on it. He is dressed in a wooly winter coat with a cap on his head. He has a very un-childlike, fearless expression on his face.]  life: Several years before he became LIFE’s first African-American staff photographer, the young and talented Gordon Parks was an apprentice with the Farm Security Administration, documenting the lives of black Americans and poor laborers on the homefront during World War II. Now, through a new series called Fields of Vision, the Library of Congress is highlighting the portfolios of the FSA photographers (Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, and others..) Here, LIFE.com presents a peek inside Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Gordon Parks  (as per request by myklia)

[Image Description: Image is a black and white photo of a young black boy standing in front of a wooden structure with signs on it. He is dressed in a wooly winter coat with a cap on his head. He has a very un-childlike, fearless expression on his face.] 

life:

Several years before he became LIFE’s first African-American staff photographer, the young and talented Gordon Parks was an apprentice with the Farm Security Administration, documenting the lives of black Americans and poor laborers on the homefront during World War II.

Now, through a new series called Fields of Vision, the Library of Congress is highlighting the portfolios of the FSA photographers (Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, and others..)

Here, LIFE.com presents a peek inside Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Gordon Parks 

(as per request by myklia)