Directory of Parks, Gordon Resources

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Sites related to African-American photojournalist, novelist, and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912.

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• A Great Day for Gordon Parks

  http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=870441
  Feature story on the legendary photographer's 90th birthday. RealAudio. Includes links to earlier stories on Parks. Requires JavaScript. [All Things Considered]

• A Kansas Portrait: Gordon Parks

  http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/gordon-parks/12164
  Biographical essay on the photographer, writer, and filmmaker.

• Ella Watson, U.S. Government Charwoman

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap07.html
  A baker's dozen of photographs from Gordon Parks' series for the Farm Security Administration. Includes one of his most famous pictures, "American Gothic." Accompanying text sheds light on how Roy Stryker helped Parks become a better artist.

• Gordon Parks: Appreciation of an artist's life work

  http://www.ebsqart.com/ArtMagazine/za_264.htm
  A photography instructor outlines the career of the groundbreaking black movie director and photographer. Includes several photographs. [Online Art Magazine]

• Half Past Autumn

  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment-jan-june98-gordon_1-6/
  An interview of photographer Gordon Parks on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery. RealAudio and a transcript. Transcript uses some Windows-only characters. [NewsHour]

• IMDb: Gordon Parks

  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662953/
  Filmography, brief biography, trivia.

• Legends Online: Gordon Parks

  http://www.pdngallery.com/legends/parks/intro_set.shtml
  Biography, and a photo gallery.

• Spartacus Educational: Gordon Parks

  http://spartacus-educational.com/USAPparks.htm
  Short biography of the American photographer, for schoolchildren.

• The Films & Photography of Gordon Parks, Sr.

  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/parksflm.html
  Was part of a film series put on by New York State Writers Institute, at SUNY Albany. How he got his big break, and his work in photography and films. Links to film notes and to two articles.

• The Gordon Parks Collection

  http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxparks.html
  Description of still photos from the movie "The Learning Tree," at Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University. Links.

• Wikipedia: Gordon Parks

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks
  Encyclopedia-style entry on the African American photographer, pianist, film director, and novelist.

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