Gordon Parks
3 titles · american independent
Parks was a Life magazine photographer before he became the first Black director of a Hollywood studio feature, The Learning Tree, about a Black teenager in 1920s Kansas forced to grow up in less than a year. Shaft came next: a Harlem private detective up against the Black crime boss Bumpy and the mob. It helped start blaxploitation, and Shaft's Big Score! followed the next year.
Signature
- A photographer's eye for faces and street life.
- Black heroes who answer to no one (Shaft).
- Coming of age in the segregated Midwest (The Learning Tree).
- Isaac Hayes's Shaft theme.
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