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Kansas Reads: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks is a statewide project that encourages Kansas adults to read, discuss and experience the same book.  The project is sponsored by the Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library and promoted by Kansas libraries, bookstores, and others from January 29 through April 30, 2007. 
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BOOKS

Flash Photography, 1947

Camera Portraits: Techniques and Principles of Documentary Portraiture, 1948

The Learning Tree, 1963

A Choice of Weapons, 1966

Gordon Parks: A Poet and His Camera, 1968

Born Black, 1971

Gordon Parks: In Love, 1971

Gordon Parks: Whispers of Intimate Things, 1971

Moments Without Proper Names, 1975

Flavio, 1978

To Smile in Autumn, 1979

Shannon, 1981

Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography, 1990

Arias in Silence, 1994

Glimpses Towards Infinity, 1996

Gordon Parks Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective, 1997

A Star for Noon, 2000

The Sun Stalker, 2003

Eyes With Winged Thoughts, 2005

The Hungry Heart, 2005 (named Kansas Notable Book, 2006)

 

 

FILMS

Flavio, 1964

Diary of a Harlem Family, 1968

The World of Pirie Thomas, 1968

The Learning Tree, 1969

Shaft, 1971

The Super Cops, 1974

Leadbelly, 1976

Shaft’s Big Score, 1979

Solomon Northup’s Odyssey, 1984

Gordon Parks: Visions, 1987

Moments Without Proper Names, 1987

Martin, 1989 (PBS presentation - ballet about Martin Luther King Jr.)


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 BOOKS, ARTICLES & VIDEOS -- About Gordon Parks

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Berry, Skip. Gordon Parks: Black Americans of Achievement Series (Chelsea House, 1990)


Bush, Martin H. The Photographs of Gordon Parks (Wichita State University, 1983)


Donloe, Darlene. Gordon Parks: Melrose Square Black Americans Series (Holloway House Publishing Co, 1992)*


Editors, Life Magazine. Great LIFE Photographers (Bullfinch, 2004)


Halpern, Daniel, ed. Anteus 61: Autumn 1988 (Ecco Press, 1988)


Harnan, Terry. Gordon Parks: Black Photographer & Filmmaker: Americans All (Garrard Pub Co, 1972)*


Parr, Ann. Gordon Parks: No Excuses (Pelican Publishing, 2006)*


Rice, Craig, et al. Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks (video) (Home Box Office, 2001)

 

Schultz, Elizabeth. Dreams Deferred: The Personal Narratives of Four Black Kansans (American Studies 34.2, Fall 1993) pg. 25-52.
 

Tidwell, John Edgar. “Gordon Parks and the Unending Quest for Self-Fulfillment.” Article in John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History (University Press of Kansas, 2006)


Turk, Midge. Gordon Parks (Ty Crowell Co, 1973)*
 

Biography  

A brief history of Gordon Parks

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A decade by decade list of Gordon Parks' accomplishments

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Lists of Gordon Parks book, films, articles and videos

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The Learning Tree book review

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