![]() Using a subtle color palette, the images echo the photographs that Park took, but not too closely. Make sure to turn to the end of the book to see his photographs and their intense message.Ĭhristoph’s illustrations are stellar. ![]() The focus here in this picture book biography is Parks’ photographic work and the impact he had on exposing racism and poverty in the inner city, showing hard working people who were still in poverty. She does include an author’s note at the end that fills in more of the extensive career of Parks as a film director and Renaissance man. Weatherford keeps this book very friendly with a minimal amount of text in the bulk of the book. Parks managed to show racism with a clarity thanks to just picking up a camera at first. He is pointed towards one specific subject who will create his most famous image, American Gothic, the picture of an African-American cleaning woman standing in front of the American flag with her mop in hand. He started photographing models and then turned his camera towards the struggling families in Chicago and Washington DC. Parks did do those jobs, but then he purchased a used camera and everything changed. He was told by his white teacher that he and the rest of his all-black class would end up as either porters or waiters. Gordon Parks had a rough beginning to his life from being born almost stillborn to losing his mother at age 14. ![]() Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jamey Christoph ![]()
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