Gordon Parks
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks, Gordon Alexander Parks, Gordon A. Parks
American photographer, musician, writer and film director (1912–2006)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1912-11-30
- Active to
- 2006-03-07
Discography
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- 768
- Total plays
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Gordon Parks was the director of the blaxploitation films "Shaft" (1971) and "Shaft's Big Score" (1972). He produced and recorded the soundtrack for "Shaft's Big Score". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/gordon+parks">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
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- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 37,043x
- Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications.
· 1979 · cited 34,266x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 31,144x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,950x
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Quotes
- “… I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done. That might have helped some...to try and get to know people and get to know all kinds of people better and investigate their ills and their prejudices and their goods and their evil…”
- “That disadvantage sometimes pushes you, you know, if you use it right, because you want to rid yourself of those things that hurt you emotionally when you're coming up.”
- “I think that the film being made there did an awful lot to dispel that. For the first time there – well, for the first time in the United States – there was a black man riding in that big crane, and he was the boss of a mostly white crew, about 200 people. They looked at this at first in utter amazement and eventually they were proud of me, because I was a local boy. It was very prideful for the Negro kids.”
- “The boys of my gang – there were six or seven of us – none of them lived to be men, to be 21 years old, except one. All of them are dead from some violence or other, shot or cut to death before they were men, by white society…”
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Key facts
- Born
- Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks , ( 1912-11-30 ) November 30, 1912, Fort Scott, Kansas , U.S.
- Died
- March 7, 2006 (2006-03-07) (aged 93), New York City, U.S.
- Works
- Life photographic essays, Shaft , The Learning Tree , Solomon Northup's Odyssey , A Choice of Weapons (memoir)
- Children
- 4, including Gordon Parks Jr.
- Awards
- NAACP Image Award (2003), PGA Oscar Micheaux Award (1993) , National Medal of Arts (1988), Spingarn Medal (1972)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Parks was one of the first black American filmmakers to direct films within the Hollywood system, developing films relating the experience of slaves and struggling black Americans, and helping create the "blaxploitation" genre. The National Film Registry cites The Learning Tree as "the first feature film by a black director to be financed by a major Hollywood studio."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gordon Parks” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.