Gordon Parks: Director, activist, poet, composer, author, musician, and photographer. While Parks is well know in all of these genres, in my opinion his best work is in photography (okay, I haven’t actually seen Shaft, so I could be wrong). Moving between different genres of photography, he really came into his own when he was accepted as a photographer for the FSA. Here he created some of his most famous works and gained great popularity. He is one of the first photographers to study racism, bringing this subject into the commercial art world. His portfolio includes portraits, fashion, Broadway, and photojournalism, specifically focusing in poverty and segregation. No matter what the genre has the ability to capture a moment like very few photographers can.
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