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April 3, 1979. (1979-04-03) (aged 44) Nairobi, Kenya. Occupation. Film director. Parent. Gordon Parks (father) Gordon Roger Parks Jr. (December 7, 1934 – April 3, 1979) was an American film director, best known for the 1972 film Super Fly.
6 lug 2020 · da John Edwin Mason. pubblicato 06-07-2020. Gordon Parks è stato uno dei più influenti interpreti della vita afroamericana del XX secolo. Questo è un suo autoritratto del 1948. FOTOGRAFIA DI GORDON PARKS, THE LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION/GETTY.
Gordon Parks, one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, was a humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice. He left behind an exceptional body of work that documents American life and culture from the early 1940s into the 2000s, with a focus on race relations, poverty, civil rights, and urban life.
Parks had four children by his first two wives: Gordon, Jr., David, Leslie, and Toni (Parks-Parsons). His oldest son Gordon Parks, Jr. , whose talents resembled his father's, was killed in a plane crash in 1979 in Kenya , where he had gone to direct a film.
13 apr 2020 · (There are many others, including Spike Lee, Julie Dash and Parks’s actual son Gordon Parks Jr., the director of the blaxploitation classic “Superfly,” who died in a plane crash in Kenya...
8 mar 2006 · BY Andy Grundberg. March 8, 2006. Gordon Parks, the photographer, filmmaker, writer and composer who used his prodigious, largely self-taught talents to chronicle the African-American...
Blaxploitation Movies & Black Power in the 1970s. Gordon Parks Jr. was born as Gordon Roger Parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, the son of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Alexander Parks and Sally Alvis. He is best remembered for the successful if controversial crime film "Super Fly" (1972).
