Gordon Parks
Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1963
Jack Shainman Gallery
Gordon Parks
American, 1912–2006
Gordon Parks was a self-taught photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer. He is best known for chronicling the African American experience in powerful, beautiful photographs. Parks worked for the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information before becoming the first black staff photographer at Life magazine. He was the first black auteur to release a major Hollywood film, The Learning Tree (1969), and he later made Shaft (1971) and Shaft’s Big Score! (1972), films that defined the blaxploitation genre. Parks also cofounded Essence magazine.
Gordon Parks
At Segregated Drinking Fountain, 1956
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
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