Gordon Parks当时的生活
完整生平1979
His eldest son, Gordon Parks Jr., is killed
Gordon Parks Jr., whose talents resembled his father’s, is killed in a plane crash in Kenya, where he had gone to direct a film.
1979
Divorces Genevieve Young
His shortest marriage, lasting six years, ends in divorce, but Parks and Young remain close friends until his death. He is also in a long-term relationship with Gloria Vanderbilt until the end of his life.
1981
Exhibition of abstract paintings at Alex Rosenberg Gallery
The Alex Rosenberg Gallery in New York shows his abstract oil paintings related to photography in the exhibition “Gordon Parks: Expansions: The Aesthetic Blend of Painting and Photography”.
1981
Writes the novel “Shannon” about Irish immigrants
In 1981 he turns to fiction with “Shannon”, a novel about Irish immigrants fighting their way up the social ladder in turbulent early twentieth-century New York.
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