Monday, March 2, 2015

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks (Parts 1-4)

  1. He dunked him in a tub of cold water and rubbed him against the ice.
  2. He was born in Kansas.
  3. She told him that he shouldn't waste his parents' money trying to go to college because all Negros end up being maids.
  4. He was 15.
  5.  He moved to his sister's house in Minnesota.
  6. Yes.
  7. He got a job working for a woman's clothing store and took pictures of women modelling the clothing for an advertisement.
  8. It is the repeated exposure of a photographic plate or film to light, often producing ghost images.
  9. Joe Louis was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949. His wife convinced Parks to move to Chicago.
  10. He played the piano.
  11.  The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.
  12.  His first assignment was to go to a theater in Washington DC and watch a movie there.
  13. Ella Watson worked on the cleaning crew of the FSA building. Parks photographed her standing in front of the American flag holding a mop and a broom.
  14. Wood's inspiration came from what is now known as the American Gothic House, and his decision to paint the house along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house."
  15. Stryker taught Gordon how to approach his subjects.
  16. 1943
  17. Vogue
  18. Wilson Hicks
  19. Crime across America.
  20. De Gough, Picasso, Van Gough
  21. He made the model move and he moved with her.
  22. Venice
  23. Elizabeth Campbell.
  24. 12
  25. He was climbing the slopes of Rio de Janero.
  26.  He was the head of household.
  27. She was an author and an artist. Her son is Anderson Cooper. Her ancestors were rich railroad company owners. 
  28. They had lots of love and respect for each other. 
  29.  I believe that people are successful if they are happy with their lives and who they are.
  30. I have given up time and my temporary happiness for the sake of a good future and long term happiness.
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  32. Genevieve Young's step-father was UN Ambassador V.K. Wellington Koo.
  33. Parks was advanced ewiewu for his first book, Flash Photography.
  34. Elijah Muhammad offered Parks rtretrgf to do a story on The Nation of Islam.
  35. Parks refused the money because 
  36. The Learning Tree was the first Hollywood studio film to be directed by an African American.
  37. Shaft was significant because he was the first African American superhero.
  38. Park's choice of weapons was a camera.
  39. Genevieve Young said she and Parks divorced because
  40. 12 Years a Slave tells the same story as Solomon Northrup's Odyssey.
  41. Gordon Parks Jr. was Park's son who died in a plane crash.
  42. Sylvie Hirsch in Dior Skirt, Paris, France, 1949

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