Gordon Parks
Subtitle: how the photographer captured black and white America
By: Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrations by Jamey Christoph
Contributors: Christoph, Jamey, 1980- ill
Publisher: Albert Whitman
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780807530177
Subjects: African American photographers; Photographers; Juvenile literature; Biography; African Americans
Description: Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever. He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed.
Notes: Booklist, February 2015

Kirkus Starred, January 2015

Pub Weekly, December 2014

School Library Journal starred, February 2015

K123 Childrens Plus, Inc.