Photographer Gordon Parks was born a hundred years ago today – on November 30th 1912. Google, which regularly honours creative people, is not honouring him, but I will!
I have been posting some of his photographs on Tumblr today. Here are the ones that have been reblogged the most so far:
To see more pictures and find out more, read my post: Gordon Parks.
That is an excellent point about Google, and I plan to notify them about it.
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Looking at these photos seems to suggest to me that we had more of a CERTAIN SOMETHING (in the way of.dignity/morality/stronger families/collective unity/strength) back in the pre-integration era than we as a group possess today.
We’ve gained a larger middle class since the ’50s… yet the power/might of the BLACK CHURCH/black pride movement has gone the way of the dinosaur.
Nuff said ..
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Abagond,
I noticed that about Google as well. The only person they would honor is Martin Luther King on his birthday.
Thanks for doing what Google won’t do.
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All this talk about google caused me to google thier founders and staff ;its to be expected from a predominantly albinic/white male business and these images/photographs of Gordon Parks are predominately black/african american as well as showing obvious racism and discrimination which probably make anyone not black esp albinic/whites very uncomfortable.
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Great photographs. Black people in the photos look so dignified. Everyone is well groomed. People had pride in those days. Like Brother Matari said all that went the way of the dinosaur.(sigh).
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Thanks Abagond for the great photographs. Gordon Parks was a true artist.
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If anyone proves photography is an art form, it’s this man.
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Thank you Abagond for paying tribute to one of the 20th century’s most important artists.
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these are not only great art but documents of history as well. great stuff. thanks.
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Its great to find out about our people. Thanks Abagond.
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That photo of the kids and the playground reminds me of my old elementary school. It was built on the same property of an old segregated school. While they built a playground for it, they kept the one from the old one school as well. It was usually said the old one was better…:/
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Gordon Parks was a genius. Did you visit the recent Gordon Parks exhibition, Abagond?
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I love the way the women are dressed in these photos. Women looked more refined and ladylike back then. Sigh. I was born in the wrong period. Have you ever seen The Learning Tree? It was directed by Gordon Parks. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s a really good film.
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If you care to (hope this doesn’t count as spamming), check out the article I wrote on Ernest Cole, a Apartheid-era South African photographer. There are examples of some of this works on there. I will link back to this article in mine.
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