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Gordon Parks
Date: 9/4/2009 Album ID: 829783
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Photographer Gordon Parks captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with "The Learning Tree" and the hit "Shaft." Midtown in Daytona Beach was among the communities Parks photographed in 1943 for the Office of War Information, before joining Life magazine. Here are some of the photos showing daily life in Daytona Beach.
Photographer Gordon Parks contemplates his lengthy career, while seated Oct. 29, 1999, at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., in front of his work American Gothic, Washington, D.C. Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with The Learning Tree and the hit Shaft, died Tuesday, March 7, 2006 a family member said. He was 93. (AP Photo/Miami Herald, Marsha Halper, File)
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This 1986 photo made available by ABC network shows photographer Gordon Parks. Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with The Learning Tree and the hit Shaft, died Tuesday, March 7, 2006 a family member said. He was 93. (AP Photo)
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Bethune Cookman College student in front of White Hall 1943. (Gordon Parks)
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The Ritz Theater (on the southeast corner of Second and Pine) showed movies for ten cents 1943. (Gordon Parks)
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Midway as photographed by Gordon Parks, undated.
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McGill's Fish Market and Fann's Lunchroom, Pine St. and Second Ave. (now Green St. and Mary McLeod Bethune Blvd.) January 1943, Gordon Parks.
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Midway photographed by Gordon Parks, undated.
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Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune in her office, January 1943. Dr. Bethune's office has been preserved in her house on the Bethune-Cookman College campus. The portraits of her supporters behind her include President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (right) and Madame C. J. Walker, (oval frame), the first African-American woman millionaire. Poet Langston Hughes (row below Madame Walker, third from left.) and John D. Rockefeller. Photo by Gordon Parks.
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