Great black and white photographers PART 2.

This Is Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks. He was born on November 30 in Fort Scott, Kansas. - and died March 7 2006 in New York. He was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist, and film director.

At Age 25, Parks was struck by photographs of migrant workers in a magezine and bought his first camera, a Voiglander Brilliant, for 12.50 at a pawshop.The photo clerks who developed Parks' first roll of film, applauded his work and prompted him to get a fashion assignment at Frank Murphy's women's clothing store in St. Paul. He began tp chronicle the citys South Side black ghetto in 1941 an expidition of those photographs won parks a photography fellowship with the Farm Security Administration(FSA). Working as a trainee under Roy Stryker. PArks created on of the best known photographs. The photo shows a black women Ella Watson, who worked on the cleaning crew for the FSA building, standing stiffly in front of an American flag, a broom in one hand and a mop in the background.