Parks, Gordon P People

Sites related to African-American photojournalist, novelist, and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912.

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• Notable Black American Men: Gordon Parks - Biography of the African-American photographer, writer, and filmmaker.
  
• Spartacus Educational: Gordon Parks - Short biography of the American photographer, for schoolchildren.
  
• A Lifetime of Photography: A Conversation with Gordon Parks - Short article on the remarkably versatile artist.
  
• Half Past Autumn - An interview of photographer Gordon Parks on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery. RealAudio and a transcript. Transcript uses some Windows-only characters. [NewsHour]
  
• A Great Day for Gordon Parks - Feature story on the legendary photographer's 90th birthday. RealAudio. Includes links to earlier stories on Parks. Requires JavaScript. [All Things Considered]
  
• A Kansas Portrait: Gordon Parks - Biographical essay on the photographer, writer, and filmmaker.
  
• Reporting Civil Rights: Gordon Parks - Traces the career of the photojournalist, movie producer, and writer. Includes selected bibliography.
  
• Ella Watson, U.S. Government Charwoman - A baker's dozen of photographs from Gordon Parks' series for the Farm Security Administration. Includes one of his most famous pictures, "American Gothic." Accompanying text sheds light on how Roy Stryker helped Parks become a better artist.
  
• IMDb: Gordon Parks - Filmography, brief biography, trivia.
  
• Gordon Parks: Appreciation of an artist's life work - A photography instructor outlines the career of the groundbreaking black movie director and photographer. Includes several photographs. [Online Art Magazine]
  
• Gordon Parks: Renaissance man, internationally-known photographer - Biographical profile, by the Corcoran Gallery's curator of photography and media arts. May not work in some browsers. [USA Today Magazine]
  
• Gordon Parks, Sr. - Biographical profile. Photographs of him and his parents.
  
• Wikipedia: Gordon Parks - Encyclopedia-style entry on the African American photographer, pianist, film director, and novelist.
  
• Visual excellence is Gordon Parks - Biographical essay on the African-American photographer and filmmaker.
  
• Colored Reflections: Gordon Parks - Short biography.
  
• All Movie Guide: Gordon Parks - Short biography concentrating on Parks as a director, who he's worked with in film, and filmography.
  
• Legends Online: Gordon Parks - Biography, and a photo gallery.
  
• The Gordon Parks Collection - Description of still photos from the movie "The Learning Tree," at Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University. Links.
  
  

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