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Schomburg Center

Remembering Gordon Parks In ‘100 Moments’

January 17, 2013 by Kathleen Hulser 2 Comments

Gordon Parks bought his first camera in a pawn shop and got his first real photography job at the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration (FSA).”American Gothic,” his bold arrangement of a White House cleaning lady with a mop in front of a flag, got him in trouble on his first assignment.

As a multifaceted creative artist, Parks stacked up firsts again and again in a long career that has been seeing numerous tributes over the past year.  2012 was the 100th anniversary of his birth, and exhibits are still underway. [Read more…] about Remembering Gordon Parks In ‘100 Moments’

Filed Under: New Exhibits Tagged With: Civil Rights, Crime and Justice, Documentary, Film History, Great Depression, Harlem, Kathleen Hulser, New York City, New York State Museum, Photography, Schomburg Center

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