Gordon Parks

I wanted to talk about my favorite photographer, writer and film director, and musician, Gordon Parks. Some of Mr. Park's work in film includes: The Learning Tree (1969), my all-time favorite, Shaft (1971), and one year later, Shaft's Big Score.  

Gordon Parks did not pick up a camera until he was 25 years old, working as a waiting at a railroad diner. In 1940 he moved to Chicago to create portraits of women in the present society. He later became a pioneer fashion, government, street, and civil rights photographer. 

If you're interested in him, here's a video on his life and work.