3 posts tagged “vox hunt”
Show us your favorite mode of transport.
Submitted by NomDeCocon.
When the weather and the distance allow it, I perfer travel on one of my Vespas.
Show us something by your favorite artist.
Submitted by Miss Parker.
Gordon Parks is my favorite artist. The above is a photo he took while shooting for the WPA. He got his first camera in Seattle, WA. He has been credited for either saying:
"I bought my first camera in a pawn shop there. It was a Voigtlander Brilliant and cost $12.50. With such a brand name, I could not resist."
OR
"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."
He established his reputation as a world-renowned photojournalist for Life Magazine, as the first African-American to work as a staff photographer. At Life he chronicled the Civil Rights movement for two decades. His work for Vogue magazine established him as a master of fashion photography. In 1970 he helped found Essence magazine and was its editorial director from 1970 to 1973.
Here some of his work for Life:
Shaft (1971) and The Learning Tree (1969) are his two best know films. The Learning Tree was among the 25 films placed on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1989. He went on to direct other films, to author several books, and to write original musical compositions, film scores, and a ballet.
Later in life he started to work with color and Photoshop:
Gordon Parks died on March 7, 2006.
Show us a picture of someone that can always makes you laugh.
My wife laura!
