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Multi-Faceted Photo Journalist: Gordon Parks
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Name: Gordon Parks
Birth Date: November 30, 1912
Place of Birth: Fort Scott, Kansas, United States of America
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: photographer, composer, filmmaker, writer
Awards
Julius Rosenwald Award for photography, 1942; Syracuse University School of
Journalism Award, 1961; Frederic W. Brehm Award, 1962; Newhouse Citation,
Syracuse University, 1963; Philadelphia Museum of Art Award, 1964; New York Art
Directors Club Award, 1964, 1968; Carr Van Anda Journalism Award, University of
Miami, 1964; NCCJ Award, 1964; Notable Book Award, American Literary
Association, 1966; Emmy Award for Diary of A Harlem Family, 1968; Carr Van
Anda Journalism Award, Ohio University, 1970; National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Spingarn Medal, 1972; Library of
Congress National Film Registry Classics for The Learning Tree, 1982; President?s
Fellow, Rhode Island School of Design, 1984; American Society Magazine Award,
1985; National Medal of the Arts, 1988; National Association of Black Journalists,
Journalism Hall of Fame, 1990; Photographic Society of America, Progress Medal,
1992.

Multi−faceted photojournalist, Gordon Parks (born 1912), documented many of the greatest images of the 20th century. He expanded his artistic pursuits from visual images to literature with his first novel, The Learning Tree, which he then adapted into an award−winning motion picture. Over the years, his works have included musical composition, orchestration, and poetry. The limit of Parks' talent remains to be discovered as he evolves with characteristic grace into the era of digital photography.
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas on
November 30, 1912. He was the youngest of 15 siblings, the children of Andrew and
Sarah (Ross) Jackson Parks. The rumor survives, more than eight decades later, that Parks was born dead. In what must have

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