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Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks is credited on 162 releases across 52 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1960–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
162
Pressings credited
52
Albums
7
Decades active
43
In collections
Biography
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree. Parks was one of the first black American filmmakers to direct films within the Hollywood system, developing films relating the experience of slaves and struggling black Americans, and helping create the "blaxploitation" genre. The National Film Registry cites The Learning Tree as "the first feature film by a black director to be financed by a major Hollywood studio."
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Credited work
162 releases · 52 albums · active 1960–2024
- Performance · 140
- Other credits · 51
Studios: P.S. Recording Studios · Quadrafonic Sound Studios · Ardent Studios · Onyx Studios, Memphis
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Channel Live
- Stanley Turrentine
- O.C. Smith
- The Superdudes
- Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
- Carmen McRae
- Ahmad Jamal
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