Gordon Parks - Wikipedia
WEBGordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography.
Biography - The Gordon Parks Foundation
WEBGordon Parks, one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, was a humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice. He left behind an exceptional body of work that documents American life and culture from the early 1940s into the 2000s, with a focus on race relations, poverty, civil rights, and urban life.
Gordon Parks | Biography, Books, Movies, Photography, & Facts
WEBGordon Parks (born November 30, 1912, Fort Scott, Kansas, U.S.—died March 7, 2006, New York, New York) was an American author, photographer, and film director who documented African American life. Early life.
Gordon Parks - Photography, Movie & Quotes
WEBApr 2, 2014 · Gordon Parks was a self-taught artist who became the first African American photographer for Life and Vogue magazines. He also pursued movie directing and screenwriting, working at the helm...
Gordon Parks - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBIn a career that spanned over 50 years, photographer, filmmaker, musician, and author Gordon Parks created an iconic body of work that documented American life and culture, with a focus on social justice, the civil rights movement, and …
Gordon Parks - MoMA
WEB“I chose my camera as a weapon against all the things I dislike about America—poverty, racism, discrimination,” Gordon Parks asserted. 1 Born in 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks was the youngest of 15 children in a family deeply affected by the racial terror used to enforce Jim Crow segregation.
Who Is Gordon Parks, Photographer Who Chronicled African American Life?
WEBMay 24, 2022 · A year after the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama—a foundational event in the Civil Rights movement— Life assigned Parks to travel south to capture life under segregation, which had ...
How Gordon Parks Became Gordon Parks - The New York Times
WEBOct 1, 2018 · At the beginning of the 1940s, Gordon Parks was a self-taught fashion and portrait photographer documenting daily life in both St. Paul and Chicago. By the end of the decade he was photographing...
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
WEBMay 25, 2018 · Washington, DC—Within just a decade, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught portrait photographer and photojournalist in Saint Paul and Chicago to a visionary professional working in New York for Ebony and Glamour, before becoming the first African American photographer at Life magazine in 1949.
Gordon Parks — Google Arts & Culture
WEBMar 7, 2006 · Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through...
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