Monday, March 2, 2015

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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