Monday, March 2, 2015

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks pt 1 and pt 2

1) The doctor but him in an ice bath and scrubbed him against the ice.
2) Kansas
3) She told him that black people don't go to college, and the few that due don/t succeed.
4) 15
5) Saint Paul Minnesota to live with his sister.
6) He did not graduate High School but he received many honorary degrees from colleges.
7) He walked into the store Frank Murphy's and said he was a fashion photographer. They set up a shoot for him and he did pretty well.
8) Two pictures get exposed on the same frame of film.
9) He was a professional heavy weight champion boxer.
10) Piano
11) To educated the public of the poverty occurring during the great depression.
12) Go to a store and purchase an overcoat, walk across the street and eat at a restaurant, then cross to the corner and watch a movie.
13) She was a janitor is the farm administration building that Gordon photographed.
14) He was inspired by the architecture of a lone farm building and the culture of rural america.
15) He learned from Stryker that the people in front of the camera are the most important people, not the one taking the picture.

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16) The FSA shut down of 1943.
17) He worked for Vouge
18) Wilson Hicks
19) After starting to work for LIFE his first major assignment was on crime, following Red Jackson.
20) Picasso, Vango, Brenard,Brugol
21) He shot fashion by letting his models move, and moving with them.
22) Venice
23) Elizabeth Campbell Rollins. She was a model.
24) He met Flavio when Flavio was 12.
25) Parks met Flavio in the early 1960's
26) Flavio lived in rio de janeiro in a favela.
27) Gloria Vanderbilt was an author actress and heiress. Her son is Anderson Cooper, and news anchor for CNN. Her ancestors are the Vanderbilt family who made a fortune in the railroad industry then expanded.
28) She said they were friends, but she also didn't care about the social boundaries, but Parks new that they mattered and would stop them from being anything more.

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