Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Other authorsJamey Christoph (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2015

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The story of a self-taught photographer who used his camera to take a stand against racism in America.

His white teacher tells her all-black class, You'll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? 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. His success as a fashion photographer landed him a job working for the government. In Washington DC, Gordon went looking for a subject, but what he found was segregation. He and others were treated differently because of the color of their skin. Gordon wanted to take a stand against the racism he observed. With his camera in hand, he found a way. Told through lyrical verse and atmospheric art, this is the story of how, with a single photograph, a self-taught artist got America to take notice.

This item was purchased with a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the State Library of Oregon. Institute of Museum and Library Services: http://www.imls.gov

Publication

Albert Whitman & Company (2015), Edition: Illustrated, 32 pages

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

0807530174 / 9780807530177

UPC

884687419979

Physical description

32 p.; 10 inches

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1 copy
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