Web Directory

» A Great Day for Gordon Parks
   Feature story on the legendary photographer's 90th birthday. RealAudio. Includes links to earlier stories on Parks. Requires JavaScript. [All Things Considered]
   http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=870441

» A Kansas Portrait: Gordon Parks
   Biographical essay on the photographer, writer, and filmmaker.
   http://www.kshs.org/portraits/parks_gordon.htm

» All Movie Guide: Gordon Parks
   Short biography concentrating on Parks as a director, who he's worked with in film, and filmography.
   http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:181971

» Colored Reflections: Gordon Parks
   Short biography.
   http://www.coloredreflections.com/decades/decade.cfm?dec=2&typ=2&sty=1&sid=45

» Ella Watson, U.S. Government Charwoman
   A baker's dozen of photographs from Gordon Parks' series for the Farm Security Administration. Includes one of his most famous pictures, "American Gothic." Accompanying text sheds light on how Roy Stryker helped Parks become a better artist.
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap07.html

» Gordon Parks, Sr.
   Biographical profile. Photographs of him and his parents.
   http://www.thehistorymakers.com/historymakers/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=117

» Gordon Parks: Appreciation of an artist's life work
   A photography instructor outlines the career of the groundbreaking black movie director and photographer. Includes several photographs. [Online Art Magazine]
   http://www.ebsqart.com/ArtMagazine/za_264.htm

» Gordon Parks: Renaissance man, internationally-known photographer
   Biographical profile, by the Corcoran Gallery's curator of photography and media arts. May not work in some browsers. [USA Today Magazine]
   http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2640_v127/ai_21114541

» Half Past Autumn
   An interview of photographer Gordon Parks on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery. RealAudio and a transcript. Transcript uses some Windows-only characters. [NewsHour]
   http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june98/gordon_1-6.html

» Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks
   Notes from a 1999 exhibition. Information on the artist and the exhibition.
   http://norton.org/Exhibitions/Archive/HalfPastAutumn/tabid/237/Default.aspx

» IMDb: Gordon Parks
   Filmography, brief biography, trivia.
   http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0662953/

» Legends Online: Gordon Parks
   Biography, and a photo gallery.
   http://www.pdngallery.com/legends/parks/intro_set.shtml

» Notable Black American Men: Gordon Parks
   Biography of the African-American photographer, writer, and filmmaker.
   http://gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/parks_g.htm

» Spartacus Educational: Gordon Parks
   Short biography of the American photographer, for schoolchildren.
   http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAPparks.htm

» The Films & Photography of Gordon Parks, Sr.
   Was part of a film series put on by New York State Writers Institute, at SUNY Albany. How he got his big break, and his work in photography and films. Links to film notes and to two articles.
   http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/parksflm.html

» The Gordon Parks Collection
   Description of still photos from the movie "The Learning Tree," at Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University. Links.
   http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxparks.html

» Visual excellence is Gordon Parks
   Biographical essay on the African-American photographer and filmmaker.
   http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/625/Visual_excellence_iisi_Gordon_Parks

» Wikipedia: Gordon Parks
   Encyclopedia-style entry on the African American photographer, pianist, film director, and novelist.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks