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Showgirls' Life at Nightclub, New York, 1958 Surf Music, Burlesque Show, Gordon Parks, Latin Quarter, Lulu Frost, Miss Usa, Park Photos, Glamour Photography, Life Pictures

Gordon Parks' pictures of showgirls matter simply because they're beautiful, and because they offer, as LIFE magazine noted, "living, breathing proof of the poet's point that beauty is its own excuse for being." His photos, in the end, is not that they offer oblique commentary on the drudgery of labor, or that they somehow reveal something about “show people” that we never knew. Parks’ color pictures are at-once charged with emotion and curiously prosaic. These are, after all, women with a…

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