“Pictures I’ve made that have become the most important pictures,” said Gordon Parks in 2000, “were pictures that I wished I never had to take—of people who were impoverished, people in need—and I suppose that I pointed my camera mostly at people who needed someone to say something for them. They couldn’t speak for themselves.” Parks’s words are interesting because they remind us that photography can be a complicated action. It involves recognizing a subject, but also turning attention away from that subject and towards their existence as a figure in a photograph. Despite its extraordinary power, a photograph’s morality is mysterious and uneasy. “Black Photojournalism” presents the work of over 40 photographers featured by Black publishers in newspapers and magazines such as the Afro American News and the Pittsburgh Courier. The show chronicles scenes from history and daily life between 1945 and 1984, meanwhile looking at how the rise of Black photojournalism gave communities new ways to see themselves. —Jimmy Lux Fox