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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) 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.
Gordon Parks was an American photographer who, through a fellowship from the Rosenwald Fund, arrived in Washington D.C. in January 1942, where he gained employment at the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration under the management of Roy Stryker.
Gordon Parks, Black Muslim Rally, Harlem, New York, 1963, gelatin silver print, 32 7/8 x 44 3/4 inches. Photo: Courtesy of The Gordon Parks Foundation/Jack Shainman Gallery
English: Photographer and film maker Gordon Parks, ... The bulk of images digitized from the archive have been published by UCLA under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
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Stunning black-and-white images from over 70 years ago show what life used to be like in one of Manhattan's most famous neighborhoods. 1943: Harlem through the lens of legendary photographer ...
Macy's Salutes Gordon Parks, an American Master, in Celebration of Black History Month Macy's, in partnership with The Gordon Parks Foundation and the American Black Film Festival, honors Gordon ...
A Great Day in Hip Hop is a black-and-white photograph of over 200 hip hop artists and producers in Harlem, New York, taken by photographer Gordon Parks on September 29, 1998. [1] It was commissioned by XXL magazine, as a homage to Art Kane's A Great Day in Harlem, photographed in 1958. [2]