Gordon Parks was multi-talented and was a strong believer/practitioner of fine arts on not just photography but through music and film as well. Gordon Parks on IMDb: Awards, nominations, and wins. With Chairs Donna Karan, Alicia Keys, Kaseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean and Karl Lagerfeld running… The Annual Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction, Celebrating the Arts, will be held on June 3rd, 2014. The Gordon Parks Foundation permanently preserves the work of Gordon Parks, makes it available to the public through exhibitions, books, and electronic media and supports artistic and educational activities that advance what Gordon described as "the common search for a better life and a better world." Gordon Parks Born in Fort Scott, Kansas on November 30, 1912, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks had to leave home at 15 when his mother died. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events For the next 12 years, he lived mainly in Minneapolis, working as a piano player, busboy, dining-car waiter, Civilian Conservation Corpsman, and professional basketball player before taking up photography in the late 1930s and moving to Chicago. Parks has always been a strong campaigner of civil rights and had led his voice over several such activities. Check all the awards won and nominated for by Gordon Parks - Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (1998) , NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award (1984) and more awards. I have known both misery and happiness, I have lived in so many different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me.

This year Gordon Parks Foundation will be honoring Irvin Mayfield, Lorna Simpson, Vera Wang, and Ed Zwick presenting the Patron of Arts Award to Mellody Hobson & George Lucas. In his lifetime, the great Gordon Parks taught Americans how to see one another. In his autobiography Voices in the Mirror, he writes, No doubt it was wisdom that taught me that my most dangerous enemy could be myself. The Foundation is a division of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation. Last night, the late photographer’s foundation followed in his footsteps by elevating four individuals fighting for social justice in their respective fields: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chelsea Clinton, Raf Simons, and Kehinde Wiley. Gordon Parks 1912-2006 About A pivotal moment in the life of Gordon Parks came one morning while shaving.