Gordon Parks
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particula
Parks in 1984
American Gothic, Washington, D.C. – a well-known photograph by Parks
A later photograph in Parks' FSA series shows Ella Watson and her family.
Gordon Parks next to his piano, photograph by David Finn (late 1980s)
Shaft (1971 film)
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Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. It is an adaptation of Tidyman's novel of the same name
Gordon Parks
…Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree. Parks was one of the first black American filmmakers to direct films within the…
Theatrical release poster