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Gordon Parks students celebrate literacy with art
KSN-TV - Mar 12, 2010
WICHITA, Kansas – Students at Gordon Parks Academy celebrated excellence in literacy Wednesday with a little art. Artist Mike Potts is painting a picture of ...

Art museum to screen Parks' film

New York Times

Toledo Blade - Mar 11, 2010
... professor of film at the University of Toledo and a filmmaker, will introduce the 1971 movie and discuss the career of its late director, Gordon Parks. ...

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Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks

by: Maren Stange
Novelist, memoirist, poet, film director, choreographer, and musician, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was renowned as a man of many talents. He is best known as a photographer, a career he took up in the 1930s. Starting with fashion and portraiture, he honed his skill and his passion for documenting social ills working for the New Deal's Farm Security Administration. During World War II he became the first black photographer employed by the War Office of Information. After the war, he became Life magazine's first black staff photographer and established an international reputation publishing images and photo-essays that helped transform and liberalize American society by informing Americans about the plight of the urban poor.
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Gordon Parks: No Excuses

by: Ann Parr
This is a terrific book. It gives a great real life example of how it is possible to overcome many obstacles. I have used it to encourage my grandson in believing he can make a difference in his life and at the same time there are NO EXCUSES for failure. Great Pictures, simple text, great message.
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Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective

by: Gordon Parks
I first saw / read this book at my local public library. I knew than that I MUST have this book!
VERY interesting, well written, educational, excellent pictures!
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Spirit of Harlem: A Portrait of America's Most Exciting Neighborhood

by: Craig Marberry, Michael Cunningham
This book has fascinating stories of ordinary and extraodinary people. For each person interviewed, there is a picture or 2 and a story told by that individual. The writer did an excellent job at capturing these stories in first person...i felt like I was actually sitting in front of these people and listening to them tell me about a moving incident, their childhood, reflections on life... Some of these stories made me laugh and some made me cry. It was a neat experience to "meet" all these interesting people.
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