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* Gallery 214 at Winston Square
will present a "Gordon Parks
Retrospective Exhibition of
Photography," beginning Thursday,
Nov. 22.
The show features? 171 of
Park's works, many of which appeared
ip Life magazine during
Park's 20 years there as a staff
photographer. The exhibit, sponsored
by Urban Arts of the Arts
Council, will continue through
v Dec. 22. It is free and open to the
public from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Monday through Saturday; and
from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
Winston Square is located
at 226 N. Marshall St.
Parks, born in a small Kansas
town to a poor farming family,
became a director of major motion
pictures and won an Oscar.
A man who never graduated
from high school, he has been
given 15 honorary doctorate
degrees and many awards for his
writing, photography and
musical compositions.
Parks' first acclaim was for his
photography, which became well
known during his 20 years with
Life magazine.
The exhibition was organized
by Martin H. Bush, director of
the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of
Art at Wichita State University in
Kansas. The 132-page catalogue,
written by Martin Bush, is entitled
4'The Photographs of Gordon
Parks." It includes an interview
with the photographer and il
military news
Stanfield endsNavy
training
Navy Airman Kenneth D.
Stanfield, whose wife, Tammy, is
the daughter of Loretta J.
. Stewart of 2124 Waughtown St.,
has completed recruit training at
the Recruit Training Command
of the Naval Training Center,
- San Diego, Calif.
During Stanfield's eight-week
training cycle, he studied general
military subjects designed to
prepare him for further academic
and on-the-job training in one of
the Navy's 85 basic fields.
Pa / ! _l Jl -
oiarmeia s siuaies included
seamanship, close order drill,
Naval history and first aid. Personnel
who complete this course
of instruction are eligible for
three hours of college credit in
physical education and hygiene.
A 1980 graduate of Parkland
Senior High School, he joined the
Navy in August 1983.
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jay, November 22, 1984
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heduled
lustrations of 80 duotone
photographs selected from the
exhibition.
The photography exhibit,
which continues through Dec. 22,
spans Parks' en tift career, reflecting
the eventful^iife of this
multitalented man.
Born in November 1912, Parks
eventually went to Minneapolis,
where he worked as, a piano
player in a brothel, as a gaiter in
the city's large hotels van& as a
train porter. It was during his
work as a train porter that he
became interested in
photography, often meeting
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pnoiograpners as he traveled to
assignments.
In 1941, he became the first
black man to win a Julius Rosenwald
Fellowship to study
photography, an event that
changed his life. He used the
fellowship to go to Washington
in 1942 and work with Roy
Stryker on the Farm Security Admi
ni strati on program to
photograph America.
He later gained recognition as
a fashion photographer, especially
for Vogue magazine, then was
a staff photographer for Life
magazine from 1948 to 1968.
His photographs have portrayed
Harlem street gangs, Paris
fashions and street scenes, the
American civil rights movement
and personalities such as Gloria
Vanderbilt and Muhammad Ali.
Parks began writing his threeThere's
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part autobiography in 1963 with
"The Learning Tree," which he
eventually directed as a motion
picture. The book, focusing on
his childhood and adolescence,
was translated into 12 languages
and sold three million copies. The
triology continued with "A
Choice of Weapons" and "To
Smile in Autumn."
Parks also wrote "Born
Black," the story of living black
heroes, and "Flavio," about an
impoverished Brazilian boy. His
most recent novel, "Shannon,"
focuses on a wealthy Irish immigrant
family in New York in
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scores.
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special guests at the exhibition
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