고던 파크스

소개

고든 파크스(Gordon Parks, 1912년 11월 30일 ~ 2006년 3월 7일)는 미국의 사진 작가, 음악가, 배우, 시인, 소설가, 언론인, 영화 감독이다.

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s, for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree.