who was gordon park
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970sâparticularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americansâand in glamour photography. As the first famous pioneer among black filmmakers, he was the first African American to produce and direct major motion picturesâdeveloping films relating the experience of slaves and struggling black ...