Lens Blog Variety

We picked number 6 in this slideshow on lens Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta.We picked this photo because it shows variety of objects during a goat barbecue. There are a variety of items from buckets to boxes. This picture uses the variety of objects from the community that lives in the Delta to show the poverty level there.

Gordon Parks Part 3 and 4

1. My definition of successful is being able to achieve what you always wanted to achieve. I want have a 100k job before i turn 25.
2. I have given up my free time and a bit of sleep to be successful.
3. Gordon gave up the comfort of being in his comfort zone in a racially segregeated America.
4. Young's father was a rich business man.
5. Parks was advanced $10,000 for the first seven pages.
6. He was offered $50,000.
7. He refused the offer because he could not support a religion he did not believe in.
8. The Learning Tree was significant because it was the first Hollywood movie directed by an African American.
9. Shaft was confident and a protagonist and made many African American children look up to him.
10. Camera and roll film was his choice of weapons.
11. Her reason for divorce was that she was sick of Park staying away from home and not giving their relationship enough time.
12. 12 years a slave told the same story.
13. He was Gordon's son and he died in a plane crash.
14. My favorite photo was the sweeper against the flag.
15. I will remember he was the first African American director.

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks pt 1 questions

1. He was born on November 30, 1912 and the doctor saved his life by bathing him in ice water.
2. He was born in Kansas.
3.His class adviser advised him to not take college prep classes and said that very few African Americans went to college at the time.
4.Gordon was 15.




5.He graduated from Princeton later in his life.
6. He began his fashion career by photographic models in formal dresses.