Article on Photographer Gordon Parks and His Unshakable Peace
February 12, 2024
"Why not try?" seemed to be renaissance man Gordon Parks's mantra, which sounds like simple wisdom, but I suspect many people have never even thought of, for instance, trying peace, not worrying about failing or dying. Gordon Parks's life was directed by this kind of simple fearlessness.
Hi Newsletter Subscribers,
Many years ago I transcribed an interview of Gordon Parks, done for a series on the original Life Magazine photographers. My copy of the transcript (that interviewer John Loengard used in his book Life Photographers: What They Saw (New York: Bullfinch, 1998)) has been on my top book shelf gathering dust since 1996. I've reread it and had new insights. I've written an essay titled "Gordon Parks: His Unshakable Peace Endures."
You can read it on Next Avenue.
I hope it gives you as much peace as it gives me.
Betsy Robinson
