Gordon Parks Quotes

Gordon Parks — American Photographer born on November 30, 1912, died on March 07, 2006

Gordon Parks was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director. He is best remembered for his photographic essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft... (wikipedia)

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

Gordon Parks Quotes

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