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Gordon 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.
Gordon 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 (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.
Originally published in 1971, Gordon Parks’s Born Black was the first book to unite his writing and his photography. It was also the first to provide a focused survey of Parks’s documentation of a crucial time for the civil rights and Black Power movements.
Mar 8, 2006 · Gordon Parks, the photographer, filmmaker, writer and composer who used his prodigious, largely self-taught talents to chronicle the African-American experience and to retell his own personal...
Born in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1912, Gordon Parks was a preeminent photographer, poet, novelist, composer, and filmmaker. He was one of the most prolific and diverse American artists of the 20th century. Parks was foremost a humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice.
May 24, 2022 · 15 Essential Works by Photographer Gordon Parks, Who Chronicled African American Life. By Howard Halle. May 24, 2022 5:05pm. Photograph by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon...
Gordon Parks: The Restraints, Open and Hidden. The Gordon Parks Foundation. November 16, 2022 – January 20, 2023. This focused exhibition celebrates the publication of Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, expanded edition (2022). Published by Steidl and The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Mar 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...
Photographer, Filmmaker, Writer and Musician. Gordon Parks (b. 1912) wrote about his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas, in his autobiographical novel and subsequent film, The Learning Tree, which was among the 25 films placed on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1989.
