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The first African American photographer to be hired full time by Life magazine, Gordon Parks was often sent on assignments involving social issues that his whit

Includes several previously unpublished photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks's original transparencies.

Biography of the first black photographer for Life magazine who also is a successful novelist, director, producer, screenwriter, and music composer.

By the mid-1940s. Gordon Parks had cemented his reputation as a successful photojournalist and magazine photographer, and Ralph Ellison was an established autho