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  • Country / United States
  • Time Span / 1912 – 2006

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Influenced By (3)

Henry Brant, Dean Dixon, Spike Lee

Genres

Jazz Funk / Soul Stage & Screen

Styles

Soul Funk Soundtrack Soul-Jazz Jazz-Funk

Gordon Parks

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree. Continue reading on Wikipedia

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