"… I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done. That might have helped some...to try and get to know people and get to know all kinds of people better and investigate their ills and their prejudices and their goods and their evil…"
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On how his upbringing helped his photographic efforts in “Oral history interview with Gordon Parks, 1964 Dec. 30” (Smithsonian Archive of the Arts)
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Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director.
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