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    Gordon Parks

    American photographer, musician, writer and film director (1912–2006)

    This article is about the photographer. For his son, the American film director, see Gordon Parks Jr.

    For the Scottish sports journalist and former footballer, see Gordon Parks (footballer).

    Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S.

    documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree.

    Parks was one of the first black American filmmakers to direct films within the Hollywood system, developing