Monday, March 2, 2015

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks

  1.  The doctor dumped him into a tub of ice and rubbed him against it.
  2.  Kansas.
  3.  She told him not to waste his time in attempting to go to college because very few African Americans make it to college.
  4. 15 
  5. Minnesota to live with his sister.
  6. Yes
  7. He got a job working for a women's clothing store and started taking pictures of them.
  8. The repeated exposure of a photographic plate or film to light, often producing ghost images.
  9. He was an American boxer and the World Heavy Weight Champion from 1937 to 1949. He convinced Parks to move to Chicago.
  10. He played the piano.
  11. It was an effort during the Depression to combat rural poverty. 
  12.  His first assignment was to go to a theater in Washington D.C. and to watch a movie there.
  13.  She worked with the F.S.A. and Parks photographed her.
  14.  His inspiration was the people he fancied in the picture.
  15. He learned an approach to subject. 
16. 1943
17. Vogue Magazine
18. Wilson Hicks
19. Crime around America
20. Picasso, Van Gough, De Gough
21. He replicated the same motion of the model he was shooting at the time.
22. Venice
23. Elizabeth Campbell
24. 12 years old
25. While climbing slopes of Rio de Janeiro
26.In a favela
27.He son is Anderson Cooper. Gloria was an author and an artist. her ancestors were rich railroad company owners.
28.They had unending love and respect for each other.

29. Being able to achieve anything that I place time and effort towards.
30. I have given up time to have fun with my friends and family, and I have also given up opportunities to play sports.
31. Parks gave up time and effort to bring himself into a higher position of society. Family strength, musical talent, and extreme persistence brought him into success.
32. Genevieve Young's father was executed when Genevieve Young was only eleven years old. This was around 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese.
33. He was 35 years old when he wrote his first book Flash Photography. This was one year before he was hired by Life magazine to take pictures.
34.$500,000
35. He did not want to be influenced by Elijah.
36.  It was the first Hollywood studio movie directed by an African American. Gordon Parks is also the first African American to create and direct a film upon the book that he wrote.
37. Shaft was significant because he was the first African American superhero.
38. It was an autobiography written by Gordon Parks.
39. She believed that there was too much hassle in their day, and that she never knew what would happen that day since it was always so hectic.
40.  Soloman Northrup's Odyssey was based on the 1984 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Soloman Northrup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.
41.  He was an American film director best known for the flim Super Fly that died in a plane crash in Nairobi, Kenya.
42. My favorite picture is Singing Around the Campfire.
43. I will remember that he was very determined to be a very skilled photographer, despite his ethnic backgrounds.

5 comments:

  1. please fix your spacing))): nice answers but rephrase the question in the answer next time!

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  2. Excellent answers, but it would be nice if you repaste the the questions for some answers so i would know what subject of what you talk about leading to the answers.

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  3. I like and approve of these answers.

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