Monday, March 2, 2015

gordon parks part 1,2

  1. On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?
  2. Where was Gordon born? (what state?)
  3. What did Gordon's college adviser, Ms. McClintock tell him about college?
  4. How old was Gordon when his mother died?
  5. Where did Gordon move after his mother died?
  6. Did Gordon graduate from college?
  7. How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?
  8. What is a "double exposure?"
  9. Who was boxer Joe Louis?
  10. What instrument did Gordon play?
  11. What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?
  12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington, D.C.?
  13. Who was Ella Watson?
  14. What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?
  15. What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?16. When did the FSA shut down?
  16.  After Gordon moved to New York, what magazine did he shoot for?
  17.  Who was the picture editor of Life Magazine when Gordon walked into the Life Magazine office?
  18.  What was the first major story Parks covered for Life Magazine?
  19.  Who were some of the artists that Gordon Parks mentioned influenced his work after he moved to the Paris Life Magazine bureau? 
  20.  How did Parks shoot fashion when he lived in France?
  21. Where was Parks' concerto performed?
  22.  Who was Parks' second wife? (Who was her father? What did she do?)
  23. How old was Flavio de Silva when Parks met him?
  24.  When did Parks meet Flavio?
  25.  Where did Flavio live when Parks first met Flavio and his family?
  26.  How is Gloria Vanderbilt? Who is her famous son? Who are her ancestors?
  27.  How did Vanderbilt describe their relationship?
1. The doctor plunged his bloody remains into a tub of icy water and miraculously saved his life.
2. Gordon was born in Fort Scott, Kansas.
3. She said that not many black people go to college and that he would probably not go. 
4. He was 15 when his mother died.
5. Gordon moved in with his sister in Minnesota. 
6. Gordon did not finish high school and did not go to college. 
7. He went into a store and the lady in there asked what he wanted, and he said he wanted to shoot fashion; and she said come back tomorrow and shoot.
8. You expose the picture to double the light. 
9.He was a professional boxer who was black. 
10.He played the piano
11.The Farm Security Administration's goal was to remove poverty during the depression
12. He was supposed to take photos of american gothic. 
13. She was the subject of the american gothic.
14. He was inspired by the poverty
15. He learned how to approach his subjects.
16. It closed in 1943
17.He shot for vogue
18.Wilson Hicks
19. Crime across america
20.De gough,picasso and vangough
21. He made the model move and he moved with her
22.It was in Venice
23. Elizabeth Cambell
24.He was 12
25.He was climbing the sloped of rio de janeiro
26. He was the head of the household
27. Her son is anderson cooper,  Her ancestors were rich railroad workers.
28. They had respect and love for each other.

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