“I chose my camera as a weapon against all the things I dislike about America – poverty, racism, discrimination.”

-Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks. Man emerging: Harlem. 1952. Artstor.

Gordon Parks Resources

Gordon Parks Foundation

Exhibits

MOMA/Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks and the Atmosphere of Crime

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5235

Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine

Jewish Museum

March 19 – July 17, 2021

https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/modern-look-photography-and-the-american-magazine

Books

 A Choice of Weapons : Available as an Ebook from CityTech Library

The Learning Tree 

A Hungry Heart

Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography

Homages to Parks: 

Homage to Gordon Parks

https://www.newsweek.com/lovecraft-country-gordon-parks-photos-1525235

Kendrick Lamar Made a Video Homage to Civil Rights Photographer Gordon Parks. Now the Gordon Parks Foundation Is Returning the Favor.

https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/gordon-parks/writing

Films

https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/gordon-parks/film

Gordon Parks Timeline

The Learning Tree Film

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