
Gordon ParksUSA, 1912–2006Må man se det?
Washington, D.C., USA
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1948–1972
Photographs Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Barbra Streisand
In more than twenty years at Life he photographs fashion, sports, Broadway, poverty and racial segregation, as well as portraits of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali and Barbra Streisand. Malcolm X asks him to be the godfather of his daughter Qubilah Shabazz.
1950s
Consults on Hollywood productions
In the 1950s he works as a consultant on various Hollywood productions; he will later direct a series of documentaries on Black ghetto life commissioned by National Educational Television.
1960
Named Photographer of the Year
The American Society of Magazine Photographers names him Photographer of the Year.
1960s
Daughter born: Leslie Parks
1961
Divorces Sally Alvis
His marriage to Sally Alvis, made in 1933, ends after more than twenty-five years.