Langston Hughes, Chicago
1941
American Gothic
1942
Ella Watson and her Grandchildren
1942
Bill Walker
1943
Duke Ellington at the Hurricane Club. New York, N.Y.
May 1943.
Two young girls at Camp Christmas Seals
1943
Dinner Time at Mr. Hercules Brown's Home, Somerville, Maine
1944
Red Jackson and Herbie Levy Study Wounds of Slain Gang Member Maurice Gaines
1948
Ingrid Bergman at Stromboli
1949
Death Room, Fort Scott
1949
Beggar Man, Paris
1950
Beggar Woman and Child, Estoril, Portugal
1950
Countess, Paris
1950
Woman Portrait
1950
Drugstore Cowboys, Blind River, Ontario
1955
Department Store, Birmingham, Alabama
1956
Chain Gang, Alabama
1956
Still Life, New York
1958
Gloria Vanderbilt, New York
1960
Flavio da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1961
Red Dress
Circa 1962
Malcolm X Addressing Black Muslim Rally in Chicago
1963
Nurses, Ethel Shariff in Chicago
1963
Muhammad Ali in Training, Miami, Florida
1966
Norman Jr. Reading in Bed
1967
The Fontanelle Family
Bessie and Kenneth, Little Richard, Norman Jr. and Ellen at the Poverty Board in New York City
1967
Bangkok
c. 1967
James Galanos Fashion
circa 1967
Muhammad Ali
1970
A Memory
1993
The Bridge
1995
Toward Infinity
1995
Front Cover, A Star For Noon
September 2000
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Gordon Parks era filho de um jornaleiro, sendo o mais novo de 15 filhos. Cresceu em casa da irmã, em Minneapolis, até o cunhado o pôr fora aos 16 anos. Foi empregado de mesa e músico até, ao ver fotografias da Farm Security Admninistration e um jornal semanal com o fotógrafo Norma Alley, comprar uma máquina fotográfica usada e começar a tirar fotografias. Começou pela fotografia de moda e, a partir de 1942, trabalhou também para a Farm Security Admninistration. Entre 1949 e 1970, trabalhou como foto jornalista para a revista Life. Retratou a vida das pessoas no sul dos Estados Unidos e nas favelas brasileiras, bem como a de gente rica e elegantemente vestida em Nova Iorque e Washington. Retratou artistas e produziu uma reportagem comovente sobre o lider negro Maolcolm X. As suas reportagens pictóricas dos bairros pobres de Harlem, a que teve acesso por ele próprio ser negro, abriram os olhos dos americanos brancos para o país dividido em que viviam. Tornou-se muito popular graças aos seus filmes, em particular "The Learning Tree", de 1969, e às suas histórias misteriosas que tiveram pela primeira vez um negro como herói. Ao longo da sua carreira exemplar, Parks, que não pôde ser contratado por Alexei Brodovitch devido à cor da sua pele, contribuiu enormemente para o reconhecimento dos negros na vida americana. Gordon Parks nasceu em Fort Scott, Kansas, em 1912 e morreu em Nova Iorque em Março de 2006.
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Gordon Parks, born November 30, 1912, Fort Scott, Kansas, U.S.,died March 7, 2006, New York. The son of a tenant farmer, Parks grew up in poverty. After dropping out of high school, he held a series of odd jobs, including pianist and waiter. In 1938 he bought a camera and initially made a name for himself as a portrait and fashion photographer. After moving to Chicago, he began chronicling life on the city's impoverished South Side. These photographs led to a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship, and in 1942 he became a photographer at the Farm Security Administration (FSA). While with the FSA, he took perhaps his best-known photograph, American Gothic, which featured an African American cleaning woman holding a mop and broom while standing in front of an American flag. In 1948 Parks became a staff photographer for Life magazine, the first African American to hold that position. Parks, who remained with the magazine until 1972, became known for his portrayals of ghetto life, black nationalists, and the civil rights movement. A photo-essay about a child from a Brazilian slum was expanded into a television documentary (1962) and a book with poetry (1978), both titled Flavio. Parks also was noted for his intimate portraits of such public figures as Ingrid Bergman, Barbra Streisand, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Muhammad Ali. Parks's first work of fiction was The Learning Tree (1963), a coming-of-age novel about a black adolescent in Kansas in the 1920s. He also wrote forthright autobiographies—A Choice of Weapons (1966), To Smile in Autumn (1979), and Voices in the Mirror (1990). He combined poetry and photography in A Poet and His Camera (1968), Whispers of Intimate Things (1971), In Love (1971), Moments Without Proper Names (1975), and Glimpses Toward Infinity (1996). Other works included Born Black (1971), a collection of essays, the novel Shannon (1981), and Arias in Silence (1994). In 1968 Parks became the first African American to direct a major motion picture with his film adaptation of The Learning Tree. He also produced the movie and wrote the screenplay and musical score. He next directed Shaft (1971), which centred on a black detective. A major success, it helped give rise to the genre of African American action films known as “blaxploitation.” A sequel, Shaft's Big Score, appeared in 1972. Parks later directed the comedy The Super Cops (1974) and the drama Leadbelly (1976) as well as several television films.
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Langston Hughes, Chicago
1941
American Gothic
1942
Ella Watson and her Grandchildren
1942
Bill Walker
1943
Duke Ellington at the Hurricane Club. New York, N.Y.
May 1943.
Two young girls at Camp Christmas Seals
1943
Dinner Time at Mr. Hercules Brown's Home, Somerville, Maine
1944
Red Jackson and Herbie Levy Study Wounds of Slain Gang Member Maurice Gaines
1948
Ingrid Bergman at Stromboli
1949
Death Room, Fort Scott
1949
Beggar Man, Paris
1950
Beggar Woman and Child, Estoril, Portugal
1950
Countess, Paris
1950
Woman Portrait
1950
Drugstore Cowboys, Blind River, Ontario
1955
Department Store, Birmingham, Alabama
1956
Chain Gang, Alabama
1956
Still Life, New York
1958
Gloria Vanderbilt, New York
1960
Flavio da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1961
Red Dress
Circa 1962
Malcolm X Addressing Black Muslim Rally in Chicago
1963
Nurses, Ethel Shariff in Chicago
1963
Muhammad Ali in Training, Miami, Florida
1966
Norman Jr. Reading in Bed
1967
The Fontanelle Family
Bessie and Kenneth, Little Richard, Norman Jr. and Ellen at the Poverty Board in New York City
1967
Bangkok
c. 1967
James Galanos Fashion
circa 1967
Muhammad Ali
1970
A Memory
1993
The Bridge
1995
Toward Infinity
1995
Front Cover, A Star For Noon
September 2000
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Gordon Parks era filho de um jornaleiro, sendo o mais novo de 15 filhos. Cresceu em casa da irmã, em Minneapolis, até o cunhado o pôr fora aos 16 anos. Foi empregado de mesa e músico até, ao ver fotografias da Farm Security Admninistration e um jornal semanal com o fotógrafo Norma Alley, comprar uma máquina fotográfica usada e começar a tirar fotografias. Começou pela fotografia de moda e, a partir de 1942, trabalhou também para a Farm Security Admninistration. Entre 1949 e 1970, trabalhou como foto jornalista para a revista Life. Retratou a vida das pessoas no sul dos Estados Unidos e nas favelas brasileiras, bem como a de gente rica e elegantemente vestida em Nova Iorque e Washington. Retratou artistas e produziu uma reportagem comovente sobre o lider negro Maolcolm X. As suas reportagens pictóricas dos bairros pobres de Harlem, a que teve acesso por ele próprio ser negro, abriram os olhos dos americanos brancos para o país dividido em que viviam. Tornou-se muito popular graças aos seus filmes, em particular "The Learning Tree", de 1969, e às suas histórias misteriosas que tiveram pela primeira vez um negro como herói. Ao longo da sua carreira exemplar, Parks, que não pôde ser contratado por Alexei Brodovitch devido à cor da sua pele, contribuiu enormemente para o reconhecimento dos negros na vida americana. Gordon Parks nasceu em Fort Scott, Kansas, em 1912 e morreu em Nova Iorque em Março de 2006.
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Gordon Parks, born November 30, 1912, Fort Scott, Kansas, U.S.,died March 7, 2006, New York. The son of a tenant farmer, Parks grew up in poverty. After dropping out of high school, he held a series of odd jobs, including pianist and waiter. In 1938 he bought a camera and initially made a name for himself as a portrait and fashion photographer. After moving to Chicago, he began chronicling life on the city's impoverished South Side. These photographs led to a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship, and in 1942 he became a photographer at the Farm Security Administration (FSA). While with the FSA, he took perhaps his best-known photograph, American Gothic, which featured an African American cleaning woman holding a mop and broom while standing in front of an American flag. In 1948 Parks became a staff photographer for Life magazine, the first African American to hold that position. Parks, who remained with the magazine until 1972, became known for his portrayals of ghetto life, black nationalists, and the civil rights movement. A photo-essay about a child from a Brazilian slum was expanded into a television documentary (1962) and a book with poetry (1978), both titled Flavio. Parks also was noted for his intimate portraits of such public figures as Ingrid Bergman, Barbra Streisand, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Muhammad Ali. Parks's first work of fiction was The Learning Tree (1963), a coming-of-age novel about a black adolescent in Kansas in the 1920s. He also wrote forthright autobiographies—A Choice of Weapons (1966), To Smile in Autumn (1979), and Voices in the Mirror (1990). He combined poetry and photography in A Poet and His Camera (1968), Whispers of Intimate Things (1971), In Love (1971), Moments Without Proper Names (1975), and Glimpses Toward Infinity (1996). Other works included Born Black (1971), a collection of essays, the novel Shannon (1981), and Arias in Silence (1994). In 1968 Parks became the first African American to direct a major motion picture with his film adaptation of The Learning Tree. He also produced the movie and wrote the screenplay and musical score. He next directed Shaft (1971), which centred on a black detective. A major success, it helped give rise to the genre of African American action films known as “blaxploitation.” A sequel, Shaft's Big Score, appeared in 1972. Parks later directed the comedy The Super Cops (1974) and the drama Leadbelly (1976) as well as several television films.
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