Gordon Parks was born on November 30, 1912 in Fort-Skott, Kansas, and was the youngest of fifteen children. At the age of twenty -five, Parks began to seriously engage in photography.
In 1944, Parks became interested in fashion shooting, and, despite racism in a fashionable business, was hired by Vogue magazine. And in 1947, he published his first book “Flash PhotoGraphy” (“Photo with a flash”). In 1948, his second book “Camera Portraits: Techniques andprinciples of doocumentary Portraiture” was published portrait ").
Gordon was the first black photographer to become an employee of Life: he worked in the state of the magazine for 20 years, until 1968, when he dedicated himself to the most part to cinema.
He died in the 94th year of his life in New York.
Cuba Beach Fashions (50's).












American Gothic.

Ingrid Bergman At Stromboli.
Beggar Man.
Flavio da Silva. 