The HistoryMakers video oral history with Gordon Parks.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 25 min., 57 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2001.054
Subjects

Other author/creatorParks, Gordon, 1912-2006, interviewee.
Other author/creatorRichardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Other author/creatorBieschke, Paul, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Gordon Parks
Portion of title Gordon Parks
Abstract Artist Gordon Parks, Sr. was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas, the youngest of fifteen children. Parks moved to Minnesota in 1926 after the death of his mother. While working on a train, he noticed a magazine with photographs from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), and decided to buy a used camera in 1938, deciding on a career in photography. In 1941, Parks received a fellowship to work at the photography section of the FSA. By the end of the 1940s, Parks was working with Life and Vogue magazines, and in that capacity did some of his most famous work. Branching out in 1963, Parks directed his first film, The Learning Tree. Parks went on to direct many films, including Shaft in 1971, and has composed music and written several books. Parks passed away on March 7, 2006, at the age of 93.
CreditsVideographer, Paul Bieschke.
Performer Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2001 March 12.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2001.054 HistoryMakers

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