Gordon Parks

Parks, Gordon





Gordon Parks was born Nov 30 1912 BirthFort Scott, Kansas, USA.
Died March 7 2006 deathNew York, USA.

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"Death was surely absent from his face two days before they killed him."
– Gordon Parks essay "The Death of Malcolm X"
"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can’t walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they’re really—the important people are the people he photographs. They are what make him."
The common search for a better life and a better world is deeper than color or blood.
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