Friday, September 27, 2013

Great white and black photographers, PART 2


                                                     Gordon Parks

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, was born on November 30, 1912 and died on March 07, 2006. He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas and he died in the city of New York because he had cancer. He attended a segregated elementary school and was not allowed to participate in activities at his high school because of his race. His main thing he liked to do was photography, and being a director. In 1941, Parks won a photography fellowship with the Farm Security Administration for his images of the inner city. Parks worked for vogue for a number of years.In 1969, Parks became the first African American to direct a major Hollywood movie, the film adaptation of The learning tree.Gordon Parks was a prolific, world-renowned photographer, writer, composer and filmmaker known for his work on projects.

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