Documenting the Blues in Mississippi Delta

Number 7
1. The focus of the picture is on the woman. The two babies balance out the photo by being symmetrically side to side.
2. Everything else is blurred and unimportant, yet still draws your eyes in the background.
3. The house is positioned proportional to everything else.

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Movie Monday Half Past Autumn Part 3 and 4

1. What is your definition of successful?
2. What have you given up to become successful?
3. What did Parks give up to become successful?
4. Who was Genevieve Young's father?
5. How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?
6. How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?
7. Why did Parks refuse the money?
8. What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?
9. What was significant about the character Shaft?
10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?
11. What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?
12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?
13. Who was Gordon Parks, jr?
14. What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?
15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?

1. My definition of successful is achieving the highest level of happiness and feeling of accomplishment/fulfillment. 

2. Time and tremendous amounts of effort

3. A regular occupation

4. Genevieve Young is Gordon Park's former wife.

5. He had two books flash Photography (1947) and Camera Portraits: Techniques and Principles of Documentary Portraiture (1948).

6. Elijah Muhammad offered parks half a million dollars.
7. Parks refused his money because he was afraid of Muhammad's influence.
8. The Learning Tree is significant because it represents Park's childhood and because he is Hollywood's first black director
9. Shaft was a black superhero.
10. Gordon chose his 35mm camera as a weapon.
11. Genevieve Young said that they divorced because of Gordon's turmoil in his life.
12. The recent film based on the same story is called 'Twelve Years a Slave'
13. Gordon Parks Jr. is Gordon Park's son
14. American Gothic.
15. In ten years, I will remember him as an advocate of black rights and as a humanist. He spread awareness over racism.

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks Part 1

1. November 30th, 1912. The doctor decided to put him in ice-cold water.

2. Kansas

3. His college adviser told him to not go to college because he was not "college material."

4. He was fifteen years old.

5. He was dumped on the streets by his relatives. 

6. He graduated later on in life with an honorary baccalaureate as a doctor of fine arts.

7. He worked at Frank Murphy's fashion store as a photographer.

8. Double exposure is when you repeat a photograph's exposure to create ghost images.

9. He was an American boxer.

10. He played piano.

11. He won a fellowship with the Farm Security Administration because of his photography of poverty at the time. 

12. He wanted him to take pictures of Ella Watson.

13. The lady whom he was capturing.

14. To confront racism and segregation by capturing workers' conditions.

15. It didn't matter who was behind the camera. The importance of photography is what you are capturing.

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