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Laddar... Eyes with Winged Thoughts: Poems and Photographsav Gordon Parks
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Gordon Parks is a national treasure. After an amazing career as an outstanding photographer, filmmaker, novelist, composer and now a poet. Parks has won numerous awards for his craft and has 50 honorary doctorates. Now in his nineties he has a wonderful book of poetry that spans his life across varying subjects and pulls deeply at his Africa- American heritage. He touches on various stages of his life, from boyhood dreams to current events like the Iraq war. Each poem has it's own flavor some with a sharp cutting edge and others with a twist of sentimentality. But either way he gets his point across. As with any book of poetry the reader will have some favorites and some not so favorites. This book is well worth trying. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
In Eyes with Winged Thoughts, the forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offer a rare glimpse of his thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic love to the Iraq war and the passing of Pope John Paul II. He has done it all. Gordon Parks's life was an astonishing litany of firsts: in the 1940s he was the first African American photographer to work for the Farm Security Administration and for Vogue and Life magazines; in the 1960s he would become the first African American director of a major motion picture. A dominating figure in contemporary American culture, he was an artist of uncompromising vision and creativity. In 2002 Parks received the Jackie Robinson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame, just a few in a series of honors that began when he received a prestigious Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1941 and which now includes an Emmy, a National Medal of the Arts, and over fifty honorary doctorates. In his nineties, he revealed the luminous photographs on display in Eyes with Winged Thoughts and the poems--some meditative and lyrical, some raw with emotion about the war in Iraq and the tragedy of the tsunami--show that he is still a true American Renaissance man. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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