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Photograph by Rowland Scherman, August 28, 1963 (U.S. Information Agency/National Archives) -- shows Parks, notepad and pencil in hand, at the March on Washington while on assignment. This is a photograph OF Parks taken by a different photographer, deliberately chosen over any of Parks' own (Foundation-managed, copyrighted) photographs. Cropped from the NARA original (2000x1420) to reduce a second, unrelated bystander at the frame's right edge; final crop (1469x1420) is already under the 1600px-long-edge convention so no further resize was needed. · U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (U.S. government work)
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Sources
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- Gordon Parks (Q365682)
- The Gordon Parks Foundation, "Harlem Gang Leader, 1948" -- Photography Archive entry documenting the specific working method (a week spent driving Leonard "Red" Jackson around Harlem in his own car before asking to photograph him) and a specific danger incident (taking refuge from a rival gang's ambush) during the assignment. Fully read.
- The Gordon Parks Foundation, "Washington, D.C. and Ella Watson, 1942" -- Photography Archive entry documenting the four-month embedded process behind American Gothic and the surrounding picture story. Fully read.
- The Gordon Parks Foundation, "Fashion, 1948-61" -- Photography Archive entry documenting his models-in-motion technique and the 1950 Spanish fashion series' deliberate Goya/Velazquez compositional references. Fully read.
- The Gordon Parks Foundation, "Biography" -- career timeline documenting his dated, individually-credited work across photography, authorship, film directing, and music composition. Fully read.
- TIME, "Revisiting Gordon Parks' Classic Photo Essay 'Harlem Gang Leader'" -- independent journalism citing exhibition curator Russell Lord's review of Parks' unpublished negatives, documenting that LIFE's editors reframed the published story toward "fear, frustration and violence" once Parks turned over his exposed film, diverging from his own stated redemption-focused intent. Fully read.
- Robert A. Mitchell, "Soldier of Cinema: Reflections on Gordon Parks and The Learning Tree. My Interview with Kyle Johnson" (2011) -- independent, named first-hand account from the film's lead actor describing Parks' casting process, on-set directing style, and deliberate effort to place Black crew on the production. Fully read.