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LaToya Ruby Frazier, Devin Allen And Jamel Shabazz On Gordon Parks' Legacy And Black Photography Today

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Gordon Parks shot his first photograph for Life Magazine, his mother had died, racism had forced him out of his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas, and he’d worked in brothels, as a singer, and as a professional basketball player.

He was not yet 30 when he captured the infamous image titled “American Gothic” and the follow-up sequence of photos of Ella Watson.

Watson worked as a cleaner in the Farm Security Administration building where Parks had a fellowship. HBO’s documentary, A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks, doesn’t simply examine the photographer’s extensive body of work.

It also explores his activism and what it meant to preserve the 20th-century Black experience through his camera lens. In all of his varied versions of

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