Gordon Parks Assignment

 

Gordon Parks was a photographer and director, who revolutionized the style of photojournalism. Many of his work was featured numerous magazines. This highly decorated photographer documented the good life and struggle of African Americans during the Civil rights movement. His work allows us to gain access to a world that’s was designed for the oppression of colored people. I thought from his photojournalism work, Parks was a highly respected fashion photographer.

Gordon Parks started his fashion photography in 1939 when he walked into a department store in Minnesota and requested how to shoot some of the clothing. It was at this point he began to practice and develop his skills in the fashion aspect. With his previous knowledge and “eye” in photojournalism, Park was able to combine it with his fashion photography to create images with a sense of relief and most importantly a story.

For my take on the take for this project, I have decided to capture a  motion and as well create a story. The story of “movement” as you can tell by the various motions of the model. What inspiration so this piece came from Gordon James Galanos Fashion, 1961. According to art website,  Artsy,  “Parks was one of the first photographers who preferred to shoot his models in real settings, their dramatic yet fluid gestures animating the clothes they wore. He didn’t necessarily focus on showcasing the clothes, but rather on giving a sense of the stories women could live out in them.” What is this statement in mind, I have decided to capture these do use fluid gestures to show liberation and freedom from a world that suppresses women.

Sources

Editorial, Artsy, and Alexandra Alexa. “The Role of Fashion Photography in Gordon Parks’s Singular Career.” Artsy, 23 Oct. 2015, www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-role-of-fashion-photography-in-gordon-parks-s-singular-career.

“Gordon Parks: Fashion Photographer – The Gordon Parks Foundation – Google Arts & Culture.” Google, Google, artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/gordon-parks-fashion-photographer-the-gordon-parks-foundation/UAJSPtL5fwxKIA?hl=en.

Journal 2

 

 

For this Journal update, my internship manager and I discussed the issues that are entering their businesses’ success and how we can formulate solutions to increase some more traffic. As you can see in the screenshot above, priorities are creating a website to establish an online presence, professional photographs, customer reviews, and testimonials, and as well advertisements on all social media platforms. Your first project would be to capture photographs for the website social media site so we can get content for the web-based applications.