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Legends Online: Gordon Parks: Memories Left Behind
URL: http://www.pdngallery.com/legends/parks/

Description:
Retrospective about Gordon Parks, best known as an American photojournalist and filmmaker but also celebrated for "[doing] it all -- including writing poetry, and composing and performing piano music." Includes a gallery of his photos, excerpts from an interview, a brief biography, and video clips of Parks talking about his 50-year retrospective book from 1997. Parks died in 2006. From Photo District News (PDN), a magazine for professional photographers.

LII Topics: African Americans, Artists, Biographies & Famous People, Black Resources, Film Directors, Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photographers

Publisher:
Photo District News (PDN); Kodak Professional

Extra Keywords
African American black Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
African American photographers
Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
People
Photojournalism

LII Database Information:
Record 20880 created by Maria Brandt on 03/13/2006
Last modification on 03/15/2006
Published: 03/16/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20880

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