Gordon Parks | Biography, Books, Movies, Photography, & Facts
WEBEarly life. The youngest of 15 children born into a tenant farming family, Parks grew up in poverty and attended a segregated middle school before enrolling at an integrated high school.
Gordon Parks - Wikipedia
WEBEarly life. Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, the son of Andrew Jackson Parks and Sarah Ross, on November 30, 1912. [2] . He was the youngest of 15 children. [3] . His father was a farmer who grew corn, beets, turnips, potatoes, collard greens, and tomatoes. They also had a few ducks, chickens, and hogs. [4]
Biography - The Gordon Parks Foundation
WEBBorn into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912, Parks was drawn to photography as a young man when he saw images of migrant workers taken by Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers in a magazine. After buying a camera at a pawnshop, he taught himself how to use it.
Gordon Parks - Photography, Movie & Quotes
WEBApr 2, 2014 · Early Life. Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas. His father, Jackson Parks, was a vegetable farmer, and the family lived modestly....
Gordon Parks Paintings, Bio, Ideas - TheArtStory
WEBMar 7, 2006 · Gordon Rodger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born in 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas to Sarah and Andrew Jackson Parks, a tenant farmer and odd jobs man. He was the youngest of fifteen children and attended a segregated elementary school.
How Gordon Parks Became Gordon Parks - The New York Times
WEBOct 1, 2018 · At the beginning of the 1940s, Gordon Parks was a self-taught fashion and portrait photographer documenting daily life in both St. Paul and Chicago. By the end of the decade he was...
Gordon Parks - Smithsonian American Art Museum
WEBBiography. The people of Fort Scott, Kansas, have stayed with Gordon Parks all his life. He grew up in this prairie town, the youngest child in a family of fifteen, amid poverty and racism. In 1963 Parks published a moving autobiographical novel, The Learning Tree.
Who Is Gordon Parks, Photographer Who Chronicled African American Life?
WEBMay 24, 2022 · His interest in photography began early. Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota, as a teenager, where, after buying his first camera and teaching himself the...
Gordon Parks - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBIn a career that spanned over 50 years, photographer, filmmaker, musician, and author Gordon Parks created an iconic body of work that documented American life and culture, with a focus on social justice, the civil rights movement, and …
Gordon Parks - MoMA
WEB“I chose my camera as a weapon against all the things I dislike about America—poverty, racism, discrimination,” Gordon Parks asserted. 1 Born in 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks was the youngest of 15 children in a family deeply affected by the racial terror used to enforce Jim Crow segregation.
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