Amsterdam News: New book revisits Gordon Parks’ groundbreaking photography in ‘A Harlem Family’
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Gordon Parks
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—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s, for his photographic essays for…
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culture · American photographer, musician, writer and film director (1912–2006) · film director · photographer · actor · photojournalist · screenwriter · journalist · film actor · novelist · fashion photographer · artist · also Gordon Parks, Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks, Gordon Alexander Parks, Gordon A. Parks, Parks
Born 30 November 1912 · Died 7 March 2006 · Q365682
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2026· 3 entries
The New York Times: Gordon Parks
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Forbes: Gordon Parks: Nationwide
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2025· 3 entries
Yahoo: Photographer Gordon Parks’ religious images displayed in DC exhibition
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Yahoo: The Gordon Parks Foundation Gala 2025 Celebrated the Enduring Power of Storytelling
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Observer: Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. On the Gordon Parks Foundation’s Newly Launched Legacy Initiative
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2024· 1 entry
Forbes: The Gordon Parks Foundation Annual Gala Celebrates The Arts And Activism With Alicia Keys, Colin Kaepernick, Spike Lee, Patti Smith And More
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2022· 1 entry
Jezebel: Through Gordon Parks’ Photographs, I Found My Beauty Outside the White Gaze
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2021· 2 entries
Essence: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Devin Allen And Jamel Shabazz On Gordon Parks' Legacy And Black Photography Today
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Los Angeles Times: Photographer Gordon Parks inspired a new generation of artists. Here are some of their stories
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2020· 1 entry
Artnet: A New Book of Rarely Seen Images by Gordon Parks Will Change the Way You Think About Crime Photography—See Powerful Examples Here
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2019· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: When Gordon Parks Photographed the Life of a Brazilian Boy and Sparked Debate
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2014· 1 entry
Another 125 of his photos were acquired from the foundation by WSU, with help from Wichita philanthropists Paula and Barry Downing, for display at the university's Ulrich Museum of Art
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Shaft Anthology: His Big Score and More!”.
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The Gordon Parks Foundation selected WSU as repository for 140 boxes of his photos, manuscripts, letters and other papers
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2006· 1 entry
Died 2006-03-07.
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Lucie Award (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Half Past Autumn Suite”.
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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As an homage, he had a cameo appearance in the Shaft sequel that starred Samuel L
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (1998).
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1995· 1 entry
It "acquired Parks' personal collection, including papers, music, photographs, films, recordings, drawings and other products of his
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Paul Robeson Award (1991).
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Wichita State University (WSU), in Wichita, the largest city in Parks's home state of Kansas, awarded him its highest honor for achievement: the President's Medal
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Composed and directed Martin, a ballet dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr
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1984· 1 entry
Sponsored by the local newspaper The Manhattan Mercury for its centennial; he returned for another in 1985, initiated by the Manhattan Arts Council and sponsored by the city and various community organizations and indivi
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1981· 1 entry
Parks turned to fiction with Shannon, a novel about Irish immigrants fighting their way up the social ladder in turbulent early 20th-century New York
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1979· 4 entries
His oldest son Gordon Parks, Jr., whose talents resembled his father's, was killed in a plane crash in 1979 in Kenya, where he had gone to direct a film.
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Parks and Young remained close friends until his death in 2006
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In Kenya, where he had gone to direct a film
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After their divorce in 1979, Parks and Young remained close friends until his death in 2006.
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1973).
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To K-State, after receiving an honorary doctor of letters degree from the university in 1970
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1972· 2 entries
Won Spingarn Medal (1972).
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Released album “Shaft's Big Score!”.
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1970· 1 entry
Parks helped found Essence magazine, and served as its editorial director during the first three years of its circulation
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “The Learning Tree”.
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1962· 1 entry
Married Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of cartoonist E
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1960· 2 entries
Was named Photographer of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Photographers
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“Magazine Photographer of the Year”
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1941· 1 entry
An exhibition of those photographs won Parks a photography fellowship with the FSA
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1940· 1 entry
Where he began a portrait business and specialized in photographs of society women
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1933· 1 entry
And they divorced in 1961, after more than 25 years
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1929· 1 entry
Briefly worked in an elite gentlemen's club, the Minnesota Club
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-11-30.
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