{"id":232,"date":"2006-03-08T07:40:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/03\/08\/rip-gordon-parks\/"},"modified":"2014-11-30T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T13:53:07","slug":"rip-gordon-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/03\/08\/rip-gordon-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Gordon Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_Parks\">Goodbye Gordon<\/a> &#8220;Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 &#8211; March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist, and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the film, Shaft.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/1gordon-parks-quote-e1417355345521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/1gordon-parks-quote-e1417355345521.jpg\" alt=\"1gordon-parks-quote\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters-of-photography.com\/P\/parks\/parks_cowboys.html\"> Drugstore Cowboys<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Langston <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/1-parks_hughes1.jpg\" alt=\"1 parks_hughes\" title=\"1 parks_hughes\" width=\"366\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/1-parks_hughes1.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/1-parks_hughes1-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto by Gordon Parks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters-of-photography.com\/P\/parks\/parks_hughes.html\">via<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>His last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/11\/30\/jean-eustache\/\">birthday celebration<\/a> with the dead (Jean Eustache) and alive (Terrence Malick) last year Nov. 30 and see his photo of Flavio.<br \/>\nFlavio <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/flavio.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Parks\" \/> Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdngallery.com\/legends\/parks\/mainframeset.shtml\">Gordon Parks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tributes from <a href=\"http:\/\/newsgrist.typepad.com\/underbelly\/2006\/03\/gordon_parks_a_.html\">Newsgrist<\/a> and a film blog <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.greencine.com\/archives\/001683.html\">Greencine daily.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gordon <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/Gordon.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Parks &#038; Ingrid Bergman\" \/> and Ingrid<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ingrid and Roberto felt like the whole world was against them,&#8221; Parks explains, &#8220;but Ingrid was sane enough to realize that they had to have a professional down there to take photos of them making the picture. She had seen a story of mine in LIFE, so she asked me to come to the island. Perhaps she thought I would do the story with more discretion.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdngallery.com\/legends\/parks\/mainframeset.shtml\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye Gordon &#8220;Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 &#8211; March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist, and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the film, Shaft.&#8221; Drugstore Cowboys Langston Photo by Gordon Parks via &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/03\/08\/rip-gordon-parks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Gordon Parks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}