"Those people who want to use a camera should have something in mind, there's something they want to show, something they want to say ... I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did ... most of whom were murdered or put in prison ... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so." -- Gordon Parks, photographer, author, poet, filmmaker, composer.
Who died yesterday at the age of 93.
NPR: A Great Day for Gordon Parks
PDNOnline & Kodak Professional: Gordon Parks Legends Online
NYT Slideshow: Photojournalist of Dignity Amid Oppression
Obits:
NYT Master of the Camera
Chicago Tribune Filmmaker
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