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Gordon Parks (natural November 30, 1912) is an African American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist, & director. He has been an significant & originative inflict all told one fields. He began his public career as a mercenary fashion & personality lensman within Chicago, however his number 1 material function come as a documental lensman sustaining a Farm Security Administration. He has likewise performed as a jazz pianist. He directed a total of picture in the period of the "Blaxploitation" phase of American cinema, though a films just can't become classified that way. He was the notable candidate for civil rights in the United states. He has besides been a subject of film & print profiles (notably "Half Past Autumn" (2000)). Parks' late boy, Gordon Parks, Jr., directed two or three blaxploitation films including Superfly.
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Notable Black American Men: Gordon Parks Biography of the African-American photographer, writer, and filmmaker. The Films & Photography of Gordon Parks, Sr. Was part of a film series put on by New York State Writers Institute, at SUNY Albany. How he got his big break, and his work in photography and films. Links to film notes and to two articles. IMDb: Gordon Parks Filmography, brief biography, trivia. Spartacus Educational: Gordon Parks Short biography of the American photographer, for schoolchildren. Half Past Autumn An interview of photographer Gordon Parks on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery. RealAudio and a transcript. Transcript uses some Windows-only characters. [NewsHour] The Gordon Parks Collection Description of still photos from the movie "The Learning Tree," at Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University. Links. Colored Reflections: Gordon Parks Short biography. Ella Watson, U.S. Government Charwoman A baker's dozen of photographs from Gordon Parks' series for the Farm Security Administration. Includes one of his most famous pictures, "American Gothic." Accompanying text sheds light on how Roy Stryker helped Parks become a better artist. Gordon Parks, Sr. Biographical profile. Photographs of him and his parents. Wikipedia: Gordon Parks Encyclopedia-style entry on the African American photographer, pianist, film director, and novelist. |
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