Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

A Harlem Family 1967

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9783869306025

    Gordon Parks

    Thelma Golden

    17-Dec-2012

    Hardback

S$48.00

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er, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself, and becoming a photographer. In addition to his storied tenures at the Farm Security Administration, the Office of War Information (1941 1945) and Life magazine (1948 1972), Parks was a modern-day Renaissance man who found success as a film director, author and composer. The first African-American director to helm a major motion picture, he popularised the Blaxploitation genre through 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 fifty honorary degrees. In 1997 the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., mounted his retrospective exhibition  Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks . Parks died in 2006.

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