How the Photographer Captured
Black and White America
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(pub. 2.1.2015) 32 pages
A True Tale with A Cherry On Top
A uthor: Carole Boston Weatherford
O verview from the jacket flap:
"His white teacher tells her all-black class, You'll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know?
Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever.
He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed. His success as a fashion photographer landed him a job working for the government. In Washington DC, Gordon went looking for a subject. But what he found was segregation...
With lyrical verse and atmospheric art, Gordon Parks tells the story of how, with a single photograph, a self-taught artist got America to take notice."
"Twenty-five years old and all but broke
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A True Tale with A Cherry On Top
A uthor: Carole Boston Weatherford
and Illustrator: Jamey Christoph
C haracters: Gordon Parks
O verview from the jacket flap:
"His white teacher tells her all-black class, You'll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know?
Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever.
He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed. His success as a fashion photographer landed him a job working for the government. In Washington DC, Gordon went looking for a subject. But what he found was segregation...
With lyrical verse and atmospheric art, Gordon Parks tells the story of how, with a single photograph, a self-taught artist got America to take notice."
T antalizing taste:
"Twenty-five years old and all but broke
when a magazine spread
about migrant farm workers
inspires him to buy a used camera. That $7.50
is the best money he will ever spend.
... In the shadow of the Capitol,
he sees black families living in alley dwellings.
He can see that blacks have it harder than whites.
...Boiling made, Parks vows to lay bare racism
with his lens."
he sees black families living in alley dwellings.
He can see that blacks have it harder than whites.
...Boiling made, Parks vows to lay bare racism
with his lens."
