Movie Monday: Gordan Parks Part 1,2

1. The doctor placed his body in a tub filled with ice water.
2. Gordon was born in Kansas.
3. She told him that he wasn't college material.
4. He was fourteen.
5. He moved to Minnesota to live with his aunt after his mom died.
6. Yes
7. He worked for a women's clothing story.
8. Double exposure is a photography method that creates a ghost image.
9. Joseph Louis Barrow was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949.
10. Gordon played the piano.
11. The purpose of the Farm Security Administration was to help combat American rural poverty.
12. His first assignment was to go to a theater and watch a movie.
13. She was an African American woman that Gordon took a picture of.
14. His inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic was the American Gothic House.
15. He learned how to approach people and take pictures of them
16. The FSA shut down in 1943.
17. Gordon Parks shot for Vogue magazine after he moved to New York.
18. The picture editor of Life Magazine was Wilson Hicks.
19. Park's first major story was about a Harlem gang leader named Red Jackson.
20. Gordon was influenced by Degas, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Chagall.
21. Parks took pictures of the model while she was walking at slow speed.
22. Park's concerto was performed in Venice.
23. Park's second wife was Elizabeth Campbell. She was a model. Her father worked for Ebony magazine.
24. Flavio de Silva was 12 years old when Gordon Parks met him.
25. Parks met Silva in the early 1960s.
26. Flavio lived in a shack when Parks first met him and his family.
27. Gloria Vanderbilt's son is Anderson Cooper. Her ancestors include Corneilius Vanderbilt, who made a railroad empire.
28. Vanderbilt described their relationship as spiritual and full of connection