Parks, Gordon (Vol. 1) - Parks, Gordon 1912–
Parks, Gordon 1912–
A Black American writer, author of The Learning Tree, Parks is also a photographer, film director, and composer.
A Poet and His Camera [is] the new book by Gordon Parks, who has spun his poems and his photographs together to suggest a good dream, always beautiful, sometimes elusive.
Vogue, October 1, 1968.
Gordon Parks, perhaps best known for his photojournalism achievements, is a man of many talents. He has written, produced, and directed, as well as scored, this reflective memoir [The Learning Tree] based on his autobiographical novel. Parks's strongest attribute is his wonderful humanism, and ability to follow the path of an artist rather than pound out a message….
But in the matter of style, Parks has fashioned a film very much like some of the more melodramatic efforts of his white predecessors. The characters are often clichéd, despite the...
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