Some 53 of Gordon Parks' more than 700 photos taken of civil-rights leader Stokely...
Gordon Parks quietly photographed Stokely Carmichael, leader of the grassroots Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in the 1960s.He navigated through Black communities with his camera as a way to humanize them. While the nation often depicted Black lives in turmoil and awash in violence, Parks looked at the world differently. He saw art and dignity in the struggle for civil rights, and his photographs captured that beautifully.
He was 53 at the time of the assignment and had just completed a profile on Muhammad Ali. He also photographed fashion for Vogue and Ebony magazines. Volpe contacted many of the people in the Parks' images who are still alive. Some recalled from their conversations with Carmichael that he had a love for children, music and laughter. But most didn't even remember that Parks was there. He worked quietly.
"I was amazed at their spirit and courage. I was raised with a strong moral background in my family. I saw the brutal injustices and was drawn to doing something about it. I was just as scared as everyone else, but I had such admiration for Stokely and the others who worked with such bravery," he said.
Parks wrote an autobiographical novel and then a film,"The Learning Tree," about his years in segregated Kansas. It was the first major studio film directed by an African American. In 1971, he wrote and directed “Shaft,” a box-office success that launched sequels and garnered an Oscar for Isaac Hayes’ theme song.
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