✨AI Reimagines the Masters✨ Gordon Parks|180/1000

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Gordon Parks was an American photographer, musician, writer, and film director who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s. He focused on issues of civil rights, poverty, and African Americans, as well as glamour photography [1].

Early Life:

Parks was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas [1].

He grew up in a segregated community and faced racial discrimination [1].

Parks taught himself photography and bought his first camera at the age of twenty-eight [1].

Photography Career:

Parks worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and documented the social conditions of the time [1].

One of his best-known photographs is "American Gothic, Washington, D.C.," which depicts a black woman standing in front of an American flag [1].

Parks worked for Life magazine for over 20 years and produced photographs on various subjects, including fashion, sports, poverty, and racial segregation [1].

His 1956 photo essay titled "The Restraints: Open and Hidden" documented the effects of racial segregation on three families in Alabama [1].

Film Career:

Parks was one of the first black American filmmakers to direct films within the Hollywood system [1].

He directed films that focused on the experiences of slaves and struggling black Americans, contributing to the creation of the "blaxploitation" genre [1].