Gordon Parks Photography Style
Gordon parks cinematic photos captured the injustices of the civil rights era.
Gordon parks photography style. Today is the centennial of gordon parks s birth in kansas. By deborah willis nov. Elevate your space with framed prints unframed prints canvas prints acrylic prints or aluminum prints.
Gordon parks photography style developed from a fellowship chronicling extreme poverty and social conditions for the farm security administration under the mentorship of roy stryker. Photo by gordon parksthe life picture collection c meredith corporation. A reinterpretation of grant woods american gothic painting by photographer gordon parks as part of depression era survey for farm security administration.
From humble roots he taught himself photography and in turn. He photographed fashion for vogue directed the 1971 blaxploitation film shaft composed orchestral scores and. Humanitarian photographer gordon parks 1912 2006 was born into segregated kansas in 1912.
Farbman parks documented the latest styles including frisky motifs like cuffs waistcoats and smock tops. To document the inconsistency and inequality that black families in alabama faced every day. Courtesy of and copyright the gordon parks foundation.
Gordon parks photography features a range of subjects from fashion to poverty making him one of the most provactive mid century photographers in the us. 253 202 cm 9 1516 7 1516 in charles white archives. Along with photographer n.
He compiled the images into a photo essay titled segregation story for life magazine hoping the documentation of discrimination would touch the hearts and minds of the. With his film shaft along with melvin van peebles s sweet sweetbacks baadasssss song released earlier the same year parks is credited with co creating the genre of blaxploitation an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the united states during the early 1970s. He also followed bettina ballard vogue s fashion editor during her exceptionally busy day.
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