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Topic: Gordon Parks: Gone at 93
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Gerard S. Cohen
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Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 03-08-2006 10:33 AM
Gordon Parks, photo-journalist with Life Magazine for more than two decades, author of many books (autobiographies, novels and photobooks), scriptwriter, music composer and director of films such as A Choice of Weapons, The Learning Tree, and Shaft, died yesterday. His obituary in the March 8th New York Times gives moving testimony to his rise from poverty, racial discrimination and lack of education to become "the Jackie Robinson of photojournalism." With but a grade-school education, he won international honors and some ninety honorary doctorates. Parks photographed both high fashion and extreme poverty worldwide, and was active in humanitarian projects personally.
I used his first autobiographical film, A Choice of Weapons (1966) with great success during my teaching years, and followed Parks' career from the 1940's. (He bought his first camera in a pawn shop in 1938.)
Gordon Parks is gone, but his influence on photographers, journalists and his viewers and readers lives on.
Gerard Full NYTIMES obit: Gordon Parks,Photojournalist Who Showed Dignity Amid Oppression, Dies (There's a slide show you might still catch on http://www.msnbc.com) [ 03-08-2006, 12:51 PM: Message edited by: Gerard S. Cohen ]
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