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Gordon Parks (1912–2006)

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43+ obres 1,398 Membres 14 Ressenyes 3 preferits

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Obres de Gordon Parks

The Learning Tree (1963) — Autor — 354 exemplars
J.T. (1969) — Fotògraf — 207 exemplars
A Choice of Weapons (1966) 186 exemplars
Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective (1997) 122 exemplars
Shaft [1971 film] (1971) — Director — 63 exemplars
A Hungry Heart: A Memoir (2005) 43 exemplars
A poet and his camera (1968) 34 exemplars
Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (2015) 31 exemplars
Arias in Silence (1994) 22 exemplars
To Smile in Autumn: A Memoir (1979) 16 exemplars

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The Great LIFE Photographers (2004) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions283 exemplars
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Col·laborador — 217 exemplars
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
Harlem photographs, 1932-1940 (1981) — Pròleg — 48 exemplars
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
Do or Die (1991) — Jacket introduction, algunes edicions6 exemplars
Gordon Parks : 40 Jahre Fotogr (1988) — Fotògraf — 3 exemplars

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While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and introduced a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of gritty seventies Manhattan that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft is studded with indelible elements—from Roundtree’s sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by Isaac Hayes.

(Source: The Criterion Collection)
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aptrvideo | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Nov 14, 2023 |
My boyfriend remembers this book as one that really impacted him as a child. I read it for the first time today and I find the story's themes timeless. Great photographs, too.
 
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alyssajp | Jul 29, 2019 |
Injustice, violence, the Civil Rights Movement, fashion and the arts--Gordon Parks captured half a century of the vast changes to the American cultural landscape in his multifaceted career. I Am You: Selected Works 1934–1978 reveals the breadth of his work as the first African American photographer for Vogue and Life magazines as well as a filmmaker and writer.
Reportage for major magazines dominated Parks’ work from 1948 to 1972. He chronicled black America’s struggle for equality, exposing the harsh realities of life in Harlem, institutionalized racism and shocking poverty. Parks was equally accomplished as a portraitist, capturing figures such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Duke Ellington and Ingrid Bergman. He turned his attention to film in the 1960s with social documentaries, as well as the cult classic Shaft (1971).
This volume traces all the threads of Parks’ achievement, examining the interaction between his photographic and filmic visions.
Gordon Parks (1912–2006) was born in Fort Scott, Kansas. He worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself, and becoming a photographer. In addition to his tenures photographing for the Farm Security Administration (1941–45) and Life (1948–72), Parks evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. He wrote numerous memoirs, novels and poetry, and received many awards, including the National Medal of Arts and more than 50 honorary degrees.
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petervanbeveren | Sep 15, 2018 |
A must-read for anyone interested in what it was like growing up Black in 1920's rural America.

About the author: Gordon Parks, born in 1912, was already a world-renowned photojournalist for Life Magazine and fashion photographer for Vogue Magazine when this autobiographical novel was published in 1969. He later directed the Hollywood film of the same name. By the end of his life, he had been a true Renaissance man...photographer, director, poet, author, composer, film scorer...even created a ballet.… (més)
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LJT | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Mar 18, 2010 |

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Obres
43
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8
Membres
1,398
Popularitat
#18,384
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
14
ISBN
77
Llengües
3
Preferit
3

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