Gordon Parks - Böcker

A legendary American photographer, composer, filmmaker, and author of both fiction and nonfiction reflects upon his amazing achievements, both personal and professional.

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Gordon Parks (1912-2006) -- the groundbreaking photographer, writer, composer, activist, and filmmaker -- was only sixteen in 1928 when he moved from Kansas to St. Paul, Minnesota, after his mothers death. There, homeless and hungry, he began his ...

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This new edition of Gordon Parks' Segregation Story includes several never-before-published photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks' original transparencies. A selection of 26 images from Segregation Story first appeared ...

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Angular momentum is a basic concept used in classical physics. Examples of phenomena that are related to angular momentum are: 1) Why a moving bicycle does not fall over and 2) why the currents in the ocean of the rotating earth tend to follow cir...

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Gordon Parks was born with, he says, "a stubborn need to be somebody." Though Parks is remembered most notably as a photographer and filmmaker, on his enthralling climb to fame between 1944 and 1978 he was successful in many pursuits, in...

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Gordon Parks, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author of fiction and nonfiction, has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. Born in Fort Scott, Kan...

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In Eyes with Winged Thoughts, the forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offer a rare glimpse of his thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic love to the Iraq war and the passing of...

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This book explores a once-popular picture story by Gordon Parks and the extraordinary chain of events it prompted. Published in Life magazine in June 1961 as "Poverty: Freedom's Fearful Foe," this empathetic photo-essay profiled the da S...

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Focusing on new research and access to forgotten pictures, The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950 documents the importance of these years in shaping Gordon Parks' passionate vision. The book brings together photographs and publications made during the...

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In 1966 Life magazine assigned famed photographer Gordon Parks to cover Muhammad Ali, the brash young boxing champion. Four years later in 1970, the two came together again for a second feature story in "The Great American Magazine." The...

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Det nya Gläntanumret är unikt, det är i själva verket ett nummer av den kapstadsbaserade tidskriften Chimurenga. Glänta 2.10 består uteslutande av översättningar av alla texter samt bildmaterialet i Chimurengas temanummer om tystnad och vägran att...

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