Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks ( bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli November bɛɣu pihita dali , yuuni 1912 ka o kani silimiingoli March dabaayɔpoin dali , yuuni 2006 ni) o nyɛla ŋun tumdi nucheeni tuma nim kamani ; foto nim ŋmahibu, yiliyiina, sasabira, yɛltɔɣitaɣimalisi sasabira nti pahi sinii ŋmaara, ka o lala tuma nim ŋɔ che ka o yuli du pam silimiinŋ yuli booni ( U.S. documentary photojournalism) ka di niŋla yuma 1940s malihali ni yuma 1970s ni, ka o tuma maa yɛltɔɣi kpani daa kuli nyɛla din tuhiri fakari, ni silimiingi ni bɔli shɛli ni ( civil rights) la , nti pahi glamour photography. O kookali zaŋchaŋ o ni faa kuli ŋmahiri silimiingi ban daa bi tooi nyaŋdi foto nim la nyɛla bɛ ni mali shɛli n teeri o yɛla pam saha kam.
Gordon Parks | |
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 Parks at the Civil Rights March on Washington, 1963 | |
| Born | Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks November 30, 1912 Fort Scott, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | March 7, 2006 (aged 93) New York City, U.S. |
| Works | Life photographic essays Shaft The Learning Tree Solomon Northup's Odyssey A Choice of Weapons (memoir) |
| Children | 4, including Gordon Parks Jr. |
| Awards | NAACP Image Award (2003) PGA Oscar Micheaux Award (1993)[1] National Medal of Arts (1988) Spingarn Medal (1972) |
Exhibitions
mali niŋ- 1984: The Photographs of Gordon Parks, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Landmark Center Galleries, St. Paul, Minnesota
- 1997: Half past autumn : a retrospective Gordon Parks, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. A career retrospective.[2]
- 2013: Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument, New Orleans Museum of Art.[3][4]
- 2015: Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.[5]
- 2015: Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
- 2016: Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
- 2017: Gordon Parks: camera is my weapon, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.[6][7]
- 2018: Gordon Parks: The Flavio Story, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Ontario and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
- 2019: Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.[8][9]
- 2020: Gordon Parks X Muhammad Ali, The Image of a Champion, 1966/1970, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Comprising photographs from two Life magazine assignments.[10][11]
- 2020: A Choice of Weapons Honor and Dignity: The Visions of Gordon Parks and Jamel Shabazz, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota.[12][13]
- 2021: "The Impact of Gordon Parks," multiple Parks films (including Leadbelly) screened and retrospective panel, Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita, Kansas[14][15][16]
O tuma nim din laɣim
mali niŋWork by Parks is held in the following public collections:
- Art Institute of Chicago,[17] Chicago, Illinois
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota[citation needed]
- Cleveland Museum of Art[18]
- Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri[19]
- Untitled, Harlem, New York. Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida[20][21][22]
O kpaŋmaŋ pina
mali niŋ- Parks received more than 20 honorary doctorates in his lifetime.[23]
- 1941: Awarded a fellowship for photography from the Rosenwald Fund.[24] The fellowship allowed him to work with the Farm Security Administration.[25]
- 1961: Named "Magazine Photographer of the Year" (1960) by the American Society of Magazine Photographers.[25]
- 1970: Kansas State University awarded Parks the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
- 1972: The NAACP awarded Parks the Spingarn Medal.[26]
- 1974: Kansas State University hosted a week-long "Gordon Parks Festival", November 4–11.
- 1976: Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Thiel College, a private, liberal arts college in Greenville, Pennsylvania[27]
- 1989: The United States Library of Congress selects The Learning Tree as one of the first 25 films chosen for permanent preservation as part of the National Film Registry,[28] deeming it to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in part due to its being the first film directed by an African American to be financed by a major Hollywood studio.[29]
- 1990: Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri[30]
- 1998: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement[31]
- 1999: Gordon Parks Elementary School, a nonprofit, K-5 grade public charter school in Kansas City, Missouri, was established to educate the urban-core inhabitants.[32]
- 2000: The Congress of Racial Equality Lifetime Achievement Award.[33]
- 2000: Library of Congress selects Parks's film Shaft for National Film Registry preservation[28]—deeming it to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"[citation needed]
- 2000 (April): Library of Congress awards Parks its accolade "Living Legend"—honoring "artists, writers, activists, filmmakers, physicians, entertainers, sports figures and public servants who have made significant contributions to America's diverse cultural, scientific and social heritage"—one 26 writers and artists so honored by the LOC.[28]
- 2001: Kitty Carlisle Hart Award, Arts & Business Council, New York[34]
- 2003: Royal Photographic Society's Special 150th Anniversary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography.[35]
- 2002: Jackie Robinson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.[36][37]
- 2002: Inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.[38]
- 2004: The Art Institute of Boston awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.[citation needed]
- 2008: An alternative learning center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, renamed their school Gordon Parks High School after receiving a new building[39]
- 2021: The Gordon Parks Award for Black Excellence in Filmmaking, Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita, Kansas, instituted in Parks' honor.[14][15]
O tuma nima
mali niŋO ni sabi buku shɛŋa
mali niŋ- Flash Photography (1947)
- Camera Portraits: Techniques and Principles of Documentary Portraiture (1948) (documentary)
- The Learning Tree (1964) (semi-autobiographical)
- A Choice of Weapons (1967) (autobiographical)
- Born Black (1970) (compilation of essays and photographs)
- Flavio (1978)[40]
- To Smile in Autumn (1979) (autobiographical)
- New edition with foreword by Alexs D. Pate. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009
- Voices in the Mirror, New York: Doubleday (1990) (autobiographical)
- The Sun Stalker (2003) (biography on J. M. W. Turner)
- A Hungry Heart (2005) (autobiographical)
- Gordon Parks: Collected Works (2012), Göttingen, Germany: Steidl; Slp Edition, ISBN 978-3869305301
- The New Tide: Early Work 1940–1950 (2018), Göttingen, Germany: Steidl
O Yɛltɔɣitaɣimalisi nima
mali niŋ- Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective, memoir excerpts by Gordon Parks. Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown (1997), ISBN 0-8212-2298-8
- A Star for Noon – An Homage to Women in Images Poetry and Music Bulfinch. (2000), ISBN 978-0821226858
- Eyes With Winged Thoughts Atria Books (2005) Tɛmplet:ASIN
O ni ŋmahi foto shɛŋa
mali niŋ- Arias of Silence (1994) Bulfinch Press, ISBN 978-0821221204
- Glimpses Towards Infinity. Bulfinch Press (1996), ISBN 978-0821222973
- A Harlem Family 1967. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl (2012), ISBN 978-3-86930-602-5
- Gordon Parks: a Poet and His Camera by Gordon Park, Viking Press (1968), ISBN 978-0233961088
- The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl (2020), ISBN 978-3-95829-696-1
O sinii nima
mali niŋ- Flavio (1964) (short)
- The World of Piri Thomas (1968)
- The Learning Tree (1969)
- Shaft (1971)
- Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
- The Super Cops (1974)
- Leadbelly (1976)
- Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984)
- Moments Without Proper Names (1987)
Parks also wrote Diary of a Harlem Family (1968) for Joseph Filipowic, and appeared in the 2000 remake of Shaft as Lenox Lounge Patron / Mr. P.
O yila nima
mali niŋ- Shaft's Big Score (1972)
- Moments Without Proper Names (1987)
- Martin (1989) (ballet about Martin Luther King Jr.)
Publications about Parks
mali niŋ- Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip Brookman (eds), Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Steidl, 2018, ISBN 9783958294943
- Paul Roth and Amanda Maddox (eds),Gordon Parks: The Flavio Story. Gordon Parks Foundation and Steidl, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95829-344-1
- Michal Raz-Russo and Jean-Christophe Cloutier, et al., Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison. Art Institute of Chicago and Steidl, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95829-109-6
- Peter Kunhardt, Jr. and Felix Hoffmann (eds), I Am You: Selected Works, 1942–1978. C/O Berlin, Gordon Parks Foundation and Steidl, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95829-248-2
- Karen Haas, Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott. Steidl, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86930-918-7
- Brett Abbott, et al., Gordon Parks: Segregation Story. High Museum of Art, Atlanta and Steidl, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86930-801-2
- Russell Lord, Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument. Steidl, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-721-3
- Peter Kunhardt, Jr. and Paul Roth (eds), Gordon Parks: Collected Works. Gordon Parks Foundation and Steidl, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-530-1
- Berry, S. L. Gordon Parks. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990, ISBN 1-55546-604-4
- Bush, Martin H. The Photographs of Gordon Parks. Wichita, Kansas: Wichita State University, 1983.
- Donloe, Darlene. Gordon Parks: Photographer, Writer, Composer, Film Maker [Melrose Square Black American series]. Los Angeles: Melrose Square Publishing Company, 1993, ISBN 0-87067-595-8
- Harnan, Terry, and Russell Hoover. Gordon Parks: Black Photographer and Film Maker [Americans All series]. Champaign, Illinois: Garrard Publishing Company, 1972, ISBN 0-8116-4572-X
- Parr, Ann, and Gordon Parks. Gordon Parks: No Excuses. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 2006. ISBN 1-58980-411-2
- Stange, Maren. Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks. Milan: Skira, 2006, ISBN 88-7624-802-1
- Turk, Midge, and Herbert Danska. Gordon Parks. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1971, ISBN 0-690-33793-0
Documentaries on or including Parks
mali niŋ- My Father, Gordon Parks (1969) (National Archives item #306.08063A)
- Soul in Cinema: Filming Shaft on Location (1971)
- Passion and Memory (1986)
- Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994)
- All Power to the People (1996)
- Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks (2000)
- A Great Day in Hip-Hop (2000)
- BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
- Soul Man: Isaac Hayes (2003)
- Unstoppable: Conversation with Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, and Ossie Davis (2005)
- Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker & the FSA Photographers (2008)
- A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (2021)
Lihimi n maan nya
mali niŋKundivihira
mali niŋ- ↑ Gordon Parks, IMDb. IMDb (May 1, 2009).
- ↑ Brookman, Philip (1997). Half past autumn : a retrospective Gordon Parks. Bulfinch Press. ISBN 0821222988. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ↑ Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument.
- ↑ Lord, Russell (2013). Gordon Parks : The Making of an Argument. New Orleans Museum of Art, Steidl, The Gordon Parks Foundation. ISBN 978-3869307213.
- ↑ Kennedy, Randy, "‘A Long Hungry Look’: Forgotten Gordon Parks Photos Document Segregation", The New York Times, December 24, 2014 (with 11 images in a slide show); also published in print on December 28, 2014, p. AR1, the New York edition, with the headline "A Long Hungry Look".
- ↑ Home.
- ↑ Gordon Parks: Segregation Story.
- ↑ Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950.
- ↑ Brookman, Philip (2019). Gordon Parks: The New Tide: Early Work 1940–1950. Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art. ISBN 9783958294943.
- ↑ Gordon Parks X Muhammad Ali, The Image of a Champion, 1966/1970.
- ↑ Gordon Parks X Muhammad Ali, The Image of a Champion, 1966/1970.
- ↑ GORDON PARKS: A HOMECOMING – Minnesota Museum of American Art (en-US).
- ↑ Espeland, Pamela (January 22, 2020). M exhibition features photography of Gordon Parks and Jamel Shabazz.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "The 19th Annual Tallgrass Film Festival announces 44 features, 128 shorts for in-person screenings," 2021, Tallgrass Film Festival. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "2021 Panels and Education,", Tallgrass Film Festival. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
- ↑ "What to expect from the Tallgrass Film Festival this year," October 19, 2021 (updated October 20, 2021), Kansas State Network, retrieved October 20, 2021
- ↑ Art Institute of Chicago
- ↑ Search the Collection.
- ↑ Works – Gordon Parks – Artists/Makers – the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
- ↑ Packard, Cassie (2021-02-11). Pérez Art Museum Announces Acquisitions by Newly Renamed Fund for Black Art (en-US).
- ↑ Untitled, Harlem, New York • Pérez Art Museum Miami (en-US).
- ↑ Pérez Art Museum Miami Acquires Artworks by Gordon Parks, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, and Kwame Brathwaite at Eighth Annual Art + Soul Celebration • Pérez Art Museum Miami (en-US).
- ↑ Parks, 1990, p. 326.
- ↑ Genocchio, Benjamin (2010-02-13). "Works That Testify to the Nurturing of Black Artists" (en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/nyregion/14artsnj.html.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Chenrow, Fred; Carol Chenrow Carol (1973). Reading Exercises in Black History, Volume 1. Elizabethtown, PA: The Continental Press, Inc., p. 44. ISBN 08454-2107-7.
- ↑ Spingarn Medal Winners Archived Silimin gɔli August 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Honorary Degree Recipients | Thiel College.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 "Living Legends", website of the Library of Congress. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
- ↑ "The Learning Tree (1969)." National Film Registry. Accessed January 5, 2023.
- ↑ Missouri Honor Medal Winners: Individuals. Missouri School of Journalism.
- ↑ Gordon Parks.
- ↑ Gordon Parks Elementary School |. Gordonparks.org (October 2, 2010).
- ↑ Associated Press and Bud Smith, "National Report: Nation Celebrates Holiday Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr." , Jet magazine, February 7, 2000, pp. 5–14 (Gordon Parks's award ceremony photo and report on p.14), photo and article as reproduced on GoogleBooks.com.
- ↑ Robishaw, Lori; Gard Ewell, Maryo (2011). Commemorating 50 Years of Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-879903-07-4.
- ↑ Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Award Archived Silimin gɔli December 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
- ↑ Parks, Gordon (2005). Eyes with Winged Thoughts (in English). Atria Books. ISBN 978-0-7432-7962-8.
- ↑ Petersen, Ezio (March 11, 2002). Photo: Gordon Parks and Earvin "Magic" Johnson honored by the Jackie Robinson Foundation - (en).
- ↑ Gordon Parks, 1912-2006 (en-US).
- ↑ Alternative School in Saint Paul, MN named for Gordon Parks Archived Silimin gɔli August 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Gordon Parks High School website.
- ↑ "Flavio" at WorldCat
Other sources
mali niŋPrimary source materials
mali niŋ- Gordon Parks Collection Archived Silimin gɔli February 17, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Special Collections, Kansas State University Library.
- Collected Photography, other artwork, and texts. Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.
- Gordon Parks Papers Exhibit Archived Silimin gɔli December 18, 2014, at the Wayback Machine or Finding Aid. Special Collections and University Archives. Wichita State University Libraries.
- Digital Archive. Gordon Parks Foundation. Currently, the negatives are held at the Special Collections at Purchase College, New York.
- Gordon Parks FSA OWI Photos. Held by the Library of Congress.
- Gordon Parks Oral History from the National Visionary Leadership Project
- Gordon Parks in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Additional article-length works
mali niŋ- Director Guild of America profile
- International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum profile and biography
- "The Peoples' Champions: Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks—'Photographic Equality' and 'The Jackie Robinson/Muhammad Ali of the Arts'", two long articles in one booklet researched and authored by David Joseph Marcou and published in February 2016 by DigiCOPY of La Crosse, WI.
External links
mali niŋ| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gordon Parks (category) |
- Gordon Parks at IMDb
- The Gordon Parks Foundation
- Gordon Parks Collection, photograph and poetry exhibit in Gordon Parks's hometown
- Some of his photography Archived Silimin gɔli July 23, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- Luminous-Lint page
- Ordway Theater presents Gordon Parks in the VocalEssence Witness series
- C-SPAN interview with Parks, discussing the exhibit "Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks", November 25, 1997
- PBS Newshour, January 6, 1998 Archived Silimin gɔli December 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- Further biographical information can be found at the Thomson/Gale Archived Silimin gɔli June 3, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
- Photo District News, Legends Online site for Gordon Parks
- Gordon Parks's oral history video excerpts at the National Visionary Leadership Project
- Gordon Parks Gallery at Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, Minnesota gallery devoted to preserving the legacy of Gordon Parks
- Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work Archived Silimin gɔli December 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- Tɛmplet:OL author
- The chapter entitled "Gordon Parks: A Versatile Titan Who Made His Name First As a Photojournalist" is included in this representative world photo-history The Photographic Spirit: Inspiring Photo Lives and Images, authored by David Joseph Marcou and published in 2013 online (La Crosse History Unbound website) and also in paperback.
- Audio recording of Gordon Parks, September 19, 1970, from Maryland Institute College of Art's Decker Library, Internet Archive
- Gordon Parks interview on In Black America, September 1, 1984, at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting