The youngest of 15 children gordon parks was born in 1912 d.
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The gordon parks foundation permanently preserves the work of gordon parks makes it available to the public through exhibitions books and electronic media and supports artistic and educational activities that advance what gordon described as the common search for a better life and a better world the foundation is a division of the meserve kunhardt foundation.
Washington d c july and august 1942 farm security administration lot 156.
Gordon parks was a self taught photographer writer composer and filmmaker.
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Gordon parks was born in kansas in 1912 and spent his youth in minnesota.
Gordon parks american 1912 2006 outside looking in mobile alabama 1956 printed 2012 pigmented inkjet print.
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Gordon parks self portrait 1941 gelatin silver print 50 8 40 64 cm 20 16 in private collection courtesy of and copyright the gordon parks foundation.
Gordon parks langston hughes chicago december 1941 gelatin silver print printed later corcoran collection the gordon parks collection 2016 117 102 4 of 23 this is one of many photographs that parks made in washington while working for the farm security administration fsa a government agency.
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Gordon parks gordon parks photography features a range of subjects from fashion to poverty making him one of the most provactive mid century photographers in the u s.
During the depression a variety of jobs including stints as a musician and as a waiter on passenger trains took him to various parts of the northern united states.
2006 in fort scott kansas.
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.
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