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No one ever called Gordon Parks a Renaissance Man to his face. The incredibly talented American icon laughed at the comparison. “I haven’t even learned how to spell Renaissance yet,” he modestly joked. Born in 1912, Parks did not graduate from high school. Yet, he received over fifty honorary doctorates and awards, including the National Medal of Art, presented to him by the President of the United States in 1988, and his photographs and artworks have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world. From the 1940’s through the 1970’s, Parks covered the major themes of each decade for LIFE magazine. He eventually expanded into film and became a pioneer African-American film director, producing such classics as The Learning Tree and *@#*. Gordon Parks died on March 7, 2002. His final artworks include highly innovative, intense color photographs, which he created by posing objects against water-color backgrounds. When explaining his latest works, the artist stated, “You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show beauty with it; you can do a lot of things…and, I think that after over 90 years upon this planet, that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well
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