Gordon Parks
American · 1912–2006
Photographer, filmmaker, musician, and writer who became the first Black staff photographer at Life magazine. His camera was, in his words, a weapon against poverty, racism, and injustice.
Wikipedia ↗“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.”
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A Choice of Weapons ↗ (1966)
“I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.”
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Voices in the Mirror ↗ (1990)
“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.”
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