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Biography
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Gordon Parks
Real name: Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
Effective period / Period of releases: 1969 - 1972
Born: 30th November 1912 Kansas, USADied: 7th March 2006
Groundbreaking American photographer, composer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine, where he was the first black staffer, and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft.