{"id":56042,"date":"2022-01-19T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoworld.bg\/gordon-parks-american-non-crimiminal-story\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T10:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:16:51","slug":"gordon-parks-american-non-crimiminal-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoworld.bg\/en\/gordon-parks-american-non-crimiminal-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Parks – American NON-Crimiminal Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Remember the movie Green Book? The one that won four Oscars, two Golden Globes and starred Bulgarian Dimitar Marinov?<\/p>\n\n

Yes, the same one. The film’s title was inspired by a book used by blacks to safely travel across the states in the days before the civil rights movements. It includes the hotels and restaurants where people of color are allowed to stay. The plot follows an Italian-American chauffeur and bodyguard hired to drive and guard Don Shirley, a famous African-American jazz pianist, during his tour of the highly conservative American South, where Jim Crow segregation laws still apply.<\/p>\n\n

And it sounds really startling to be able to play and entertain white people, but not be able to use their bathroom because you’re black.<\/p>\n\n

Why am I telling you about this movie? Because twenty years before the story that the film follows, another American of color – the photographer Gordon Parks – tries to jump the barriers and in many ways succeeds. We can only guess what it cost him to go from a pianist in a brothel to the first African-American staff photographer of “LIFE” magazine. Let’s add the fact that his film “The Tree of Knowledge” \/1969\/ is included in the National Film Library of the United States Library of Congress.<\/p>\n\n

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Who is Gordon Parks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n