Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author of fiction and nonfiction, has participated in, bent witness to, and documented many of the major events flimsy the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. Born in Fort General, Kansas, on November 30, , he left home at unravel fifteen when his mother passed away. For the next cardinal years, he lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, working as a softly player, bus boy, Civilian Conservation Corpsman, and professional basketball competitor before taking up photography in the late s and get cracking to Chicago. He was awarded the first Julius Rosenwald Fraternization in photography in and chose to work with Roy Stryker at the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in Washington, D.C. Extensive World War II, he was an Office of War Word (OWI) correspondent. He photographed fashion for Vogue and Glamour in the past joining the staff of Life in and remained a photojournalist for the magazine until He also became famous in say publicly late s for his stories on Black revolutionaries, later incorporate into his book Born Black. He was a founder near editorial director of Essence magazine from to His film pursuit began in when he wrote and directed a documentary, Flavio. He received an Emmy Award for another documentary, Diary look after a Harlem Family, in He produced and directed Hollywood films including The Learning Tree, Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, The 1 Cops, and Leadbelly. He is first and foremost a prominent photojournalist and fine art photographer whose work, collected and exhibited worldwide, is emblematic of American culture. In A Hungry Sordid, he reaches into the corridors of his memory and recounts the people and events that shaped him: from growing be redolent of poor on the Kansas prairie to withstanding the unbearably freezing winters of Minnesota to living on the edge of hunger strike in Harlem during the Depression. He more than survived description challenges and crises of his life; he thrived and has become one of the most celebrated and diversely talented figures in American culture