Gordon Parks(1912-2006)
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
The pre-eminent American photojournalist of sub-Saharan descent. An
acclaimed photographer for Life magazine from the late 40s through late
60s, he turned to directing films, his second of which, the
blaxploitation movie Shaft, les nuits rouges de Harlem (1971), achieved success at the box office. In
1989 his first film effort, Les sentiers de la violence (1969), was selected among the first 25
films so honored, by the U.S. Library of Congress to be preserved in
the National Film Registry for all time.
