Gordon Parksアメリカ合衆国, 1912–2006Duke Ellington
作品データ
- 収蔵番号
- 2005.44
描かれているもの
カタログ収録
出典
- シカゴ美術館
- 画像： シカゴ美術館 — © the artist or rights holder
その頃、Gordon Parksの人生では
生涯をすべて見る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
1962
Meets the editor Genevieve Young
When he begins writing “The Learning Tree”, his publisher assigns him a Chinese-American editor, Genevieve Young, stepdaughter of the Chinese diplomat Wellington Koo. They later become romantically involved, at a time when both are divorcing previous spouses.
1962
Marries Elizabeth Campbell
Marries Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of the cartoonist E. Simms Campbell; the marriage lasts until 1973.
