GORDON PARKS
was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in issues of civil rights, poverty, African-Americans, and in glamour photography.
At the French Embassy, they granted me show for the release of my book, Do or Die, and awarded me with the Légion d'honneur.
He decied to apply to the Guggenheim Foundation for me to get a Grant from them.
"You cannot photograph a bigot and say' "this is a bigot,' because they have a way of looking just like everybody else. What the camera had to do was expose the evils of racism, the evils of poverty, the discrimination and bigotry by showing the people who suffered most under it."
—Gorden Parks