Gordon Parks Self Portrait
At the beginning of the 1940s gordon parks was a self taught fashion and portrait photographer documenting daily life in both st.
Gordon parks self portrait. When 25 year old gordon parks picked up his first camera around 1937 he had already survived a period of homelessness tried his hand at composing music and worked as a waiter on one of northern pacific railways luxury trains. Considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century gordon parks was a self taught photographer filmmaker writer and composer. He is best known for chronicling the african american experience in powerful poetic photographs.
508 x 406 cm. The youngest of 15 children gordon parks was born in 1912 d. The new tide early work 1940 1950 is that it shows a young man in a hurry.
Parks worked for the farm security administration and the office of war information before becoming the first black staff photographer at life magazine. Courtesy of and copyright the gordon parks foundation. Courtesy of and copyright the gordon parks foundation.
2006 in fort scott kansas. By the end of the decade he was photographing. Gordon parks self portrait 1941 andover the obvious thing to say about gordon parks.