Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. An itinerant laborer, he worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself, and becoming a photographer. In addition to his storied tenures photographing for the Farm Security Administration (1941–45) and Life magazine (1948–72), Parks evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. The first African-American director to helm a major motion picture, he helped launch the blaxploitation genre with his film Shaft (1971). He wrote numerous memoirs, novels and books of poetry, and received many awards, including the National Medal of Arts and more than 50 honorary degrees. Parks died in 2006.
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Gordon Parks
The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
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Gordon Parks
Muhammad Ali
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Gordon Parks
The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
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Gordon Parks
The Flavio Story
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Gordon Parks
Collected Works. Study Edition
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Gordon Parks
I AM YOU: Selected Works, 1942–1978
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Gordon Parks
I AM YOU: Selected Works, 1942–1978 (German edition)
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Gordon Parks, Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
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Gordon Parks
Back to Fort Scott
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Gordon Parks
Segregation Story
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Gordon Parks
The Making of an Argument
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Gordon Parks
Collected Works
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Gordon Parks
A Harlem Family 1967
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