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Program Description
Event Details
African American author, photographer, and filmmaker Gordon Parks was well known for his documentation of American life and culture. Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912, he is one of the most esteemed image makers of all time. In this presentation, photographer Ann Dean discusses the impact and inspiration found in Parks’s books: The Learning Tree, A Choice of Weapons, and Half Past Autumn. These books help illustrate Parks’s mother’s teachings centered in love, dignity, and hard work, and provide a starting point to talk about his struggles, choices, and triumphs, all great life lessons for those searching to find their way in this complicated world. Sponsored by Humanities Kansas.
This program is part of Black History Month events at KCKPL.
Picture Attribution:
Title: Photographer and film director Gordon Parks, portrait, 1984
Photographer: Schneider, Iris
Date created: September 5, 1984
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclalat_1429_b2167_300831
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002t38h
Rights contact: UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Rights holder: The Regents of the University of California
License: This work is licensed under a "Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International" .
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