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S2-PG726"Falling Petals" by Gordon Parks
Limited Edition Lithograph
Signed & Numbered by the Artist
Edition Size - 90
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GORDON PARKS
Gordon Parks was a creative genius and one of this country’s most esteemed image makers – a multi-award-winning photographer, writer, composer and filmmaker, abilities that had earned him the reputation of being a renaissance man. He was the first African American staff photographer at both Life and Vogue magazines and the first to write, direct and produce a film for a major motion picture company.
Born in Fort Knox, Kansas in 1912, Parks rose from a childhood of poverty in a segregated society to a celebrated place in the international world of art. He learned to capture and convey powerful images with his camera. As a young man, the earliest pictures he took of the people and the tenements of the city’s south side of Chicago became the subject that developed into a lifetime of work dedicated to overcoming hopelessness.
Gordon Parks, who was 93, passed away at his home in New York City on March 7, 2006.
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