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Gordon Parks (1912–2006)

“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” – Gordon Parks

One of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, Gordon Parks used his camera “as a weapon of choice” to shine a light on his experiences growing up Black in segregated America. Born in segregated Fort Scott, Kansas in 1912, Parks bought his first camera at a pawnshop in Seattle and taught himself how to use it. He then moved onto working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Office of War information (OWI), and for Life magazine in 1949 as the first African American staff photographer.

Parks created an exceptional body of work that documents American life and culture from the early 1940s into the 2000s, with a focus on the social and economic impact of poverty, racism, and other forms of discrimination.

This publication entitled “Gordon Parks : the new tide, early work, 1940-1950“ brings together photographs and publications made during the first and most formative decade of his 65-year career. During the 1940s Parks' photographic ambitions grew to express a profound understanding of his social, cultural and political experiences. From the first photographs he published in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and his relationship to the Chicago Black Renaissance, to his mentorship with Roy Stryker and his breakthrough work for America's influential picture magazines - including "Ebony" and "Life" - this book traces Parks' rapid evolution from an accomplished, self-taught practitioner to a groundbreaking artistic and journalistic voice. (from the publisher’s note)

Image: Front cover image: “Langston Hughes, Chicago” December 1941

Gordon Parks : the new tide, early work, 1940-1950 Washington [D.C.] : Natrional Gallery of Art ; Pleasantville, N.Y. : The Gordon Parks Foundation ; Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2018. English HOLLIS number: 99153723466203941

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A few pages from 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' — an expanded edition of Parks’ classic account of race relations in America, with previously unpublished images and texts. Back in Stock from @steidlverlag & @gordonparksfoundation⁠ ⁠ In the summer of 1956, @life magazine sent Parks to Alabama to document the daily realities of African Americans living under Jim Crow laws in the rural South. The resulting color photographs are among Parks’ most powerful images, and, in the decades since, have become emblematic representations of race relations in America. Pursued at grave danger to the photographer himself, the project was an important chapter in Parks’ career-long endeavor to use the camera as a weapon for social change.⁠ ⁠ After the photos were first presented in a 1956 issue of Life, the bulk of Parks’ assignment was thought to be lost. In 2011, five years after Parks’ death, the Gordon Parks Foundation found more than 200 color transparencies belonging to the series. In 2014 the series was first published as a book, and since then new photographs have been uncovered.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr, Michal Raz-Russo. Text by Maurice Berger, Dawoud Bey, Charlayne Hunter-Gault.⁠ ⁠ #gordonparks #segregationstory #segregation #photobook #gordonparkssegregationstory @dawoudbey https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJEuAZp7jK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🖤#ArtisAWeapon Thank you #NinaSimone #AlvinAiley #GordonParks and all the gifted Black artists who use their talents for social good! You inspired and fuel me to create and maintain my #ArtIsAWeapon platform.

Reposted from @nmaahc Tell us! How has art – whether it’s music, dance, poetry, or painting - inspired YOU for social change? Join us in celebrating the brilliance of Black voices in the arts and the art of resistance. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. 🎨🎶🎤 #BlackHistoryMonth

#BlackArt #BlackArtists #BlackCreatives #YallGonnaGetThisBlackExcellence #Art #SocialImpact

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« Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-shopping », Alabama, 1956. Photographie du grand photographe et cinéaste afro-américain Gordon Parks (1912-2006), extraite d’une série sur la ségrégation raciale aux Etats-unis. Trouvée sur le site de la Galerie Jack Shainman.

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Celebrating Black History Month! Check back every day for new highlighted figures, creators, businesses, or media.

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“People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930’s… and the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.” - Gordon Parks

CARTER™️ Magazine #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #gordonparks #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke

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Gordon Parks

American, 1912–2006

Untitled (Carousel), 1950

Coney Island, New York

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A pic by #GordonParks

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#BlackResistance

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) summarizes this year’s theme “Black Resistance” as follows: "African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms... These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political jurisdiction… This is a call to everyone, inside and outside the academy, to study the history of Black Americans’ responses to establish safe spaces, where Black life can be sustained, fortified, and respected. "

By resisting, Black people have achieved triumphs, successes, and progress. Black artists, along with other creatives, employ various media to tell stories and create change.

Here is another stack of books that celebrate Black artists whose work resists the status quo, challenges the system, and calls for awareness of the myriad of issues affecting Black people’s lives.

Barkley L. Hendricks : works on paper. HOLLIS: 99155235696303941

Barkley L. Hendricks : basketball. HOLLIS: 99155776869903941

Howardena Pindell : paintings, 1974-1980. HOLLIS: 990145322360203941

Kerry James Marshall : history of painting. HOLLIS: 99153829093703941

Emma Amos : color odyssey. HOLLIS: 99155279216703941

Jack Whitten : five decades of painting HOLLIS: 990145227350203941

Black artists in America : from the Great Depression to civil rights. HOLLIS: 99155993050103941

Roy DeCarava, a retrospective. HOLLIS: 990067852100203941

Gordon Parks : the Flávio story HOLLIS: 99153691397803941

Gordon Parks : the new tide, early work, 1940-1950. HOLLIS: 99153723466203941

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Photobook lovers, rejoice! 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' is Back in Stock! One of the great photography books of the 20th century and perhaps Parks’ photographic masterpiece, this expanded edition includes around 30 previously unpublished photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks’ original color transparencies; newly discovered descriptions Parks wrote for the photographs; a manuscript of film-developing instructions and captions Parks authored with Samuel F. Yette; previously published texts by the late art historian Maurice Berger and the esteemed journalist and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault; and a new essay by artist Dawoud Bey.⁠ ⁠ @dawoudbey writes: “In picture after picture … deliberate choices of tool, material and sensibility lend the Black Southern presence, often under siege, a sense of lives fully and expressively lived. We see Black subjects and spaces that are rendered with all of the qualities of expressivity that the medium is capable of in the hands of one seeking to use it as not only an information-gathering tool, and as a ‘weapon against all the things I dislike about America,’ as Parks once stated, but also as a transformative tool capable of reshaping the experience of the world, and the Southern Black peoples who lived in it, into photographs that are the equal of those made by others whose works are considered formative to the medium’s expressive potential.”⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Published by @steidlverlag & @gordonparksfoundation⁠ By Gordon Parks. Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr, Michal Raz-Russo. Text by Maurice Berger, Dawoud Bey, Charlayne Hunter-Gault.⁠ ⁠ #gordonparks #segregationstory #segregation #photobook #gordonparkssegregationstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIaEvzORtX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Gordon Parks, one of the greatest photographers to ever touch a camera is able to touch the world with his art regardless of his passing less than two decades ago. He was extremely prominent during WWII, American Fashion and most importantly, the civil rights movement.

#RIP #GordonPark

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Here's my #8thRocks #8thRocksShuffle dance video with whirlwind sound effects & high tone version of #ShaftMovie @shaftmovie theme song by @_isaachayes #IsaacHayes on YouTube to pay homage to #RichardRoundtree, #GordonParks, #SamuelLJackson, & #JessieTUsher. Also click the like, share, subscribe, & hit a notification button bell on my YouTube channel.

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The Americans No. 2020 Dedication & In Memory of - Mr. Robert Frank & Mr. Gordon Parks #RobertFrank#kennethrstvick#Harlem#USA #nyc #GordonPark #DonHoganCharles #fineartphotography #finearts #fineartphotographer#fineartphoto#fineartphotograph#fineartphotobw #fineartphotograhy#fineartphotographyacademy#fineartprints#fineartphg#fineartgallery #money #fineartcuration#fineartportraiture#fineartphotos#Lensculture#partners#independentphoto #Unionsquare kenneth rst vick Copyright 2020 All rights reserved kenneth rst vick photographer (at Kenneth rst Vick Image Catalog) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-TSpNXhyOl/?igshid=ic43a817ptam