Half Past Autumn - Gordan Parks pt 1

1. On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?
   The doctor dumped Gordon into a bucket of ice water and rubbed him against the ice.
   Gordan started wailing afterwards.
2. Where was Gordon born? (what state?)
   Gordon was born on a farm in Kanas.
3. What did Gordon's class adviser, Ms. McClintock, tell him about college?
   Ms. McClintock told himthat he was wasting his parent's money if he wanted to go to college. She also said that very few Negros went to college and that he was not college material.
4. How old was Gordon when his mother died?
   Gordon was 15 years old.
5. Where did Gordon move after his mother died?
   Gordon moved to Minnesota to live with his sister after his mother died.
6. Did Gordon graduate from college?
   Gordon never graduated from college and didn't even finish highschool.
7. How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?
   Gordon began his fashion photography career by convincing the owner of a women's clothing store in St. Paul to hire him as a fashion photographer. His work impressed Marva Louis who later encouraged him to move to a larger city.
8. What is a "double exposure?"
   Double exposure is the superimposition of two or more exposures to create a single image.
9. Who was boxer Joe Louis?Joe Louis was a famous boxer who was also the husband of Marva Louis, the owner of the women's clothing store in St. Paul.
10. What instrument did Gordon play?
    Gordon played the piano. 
11. What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?
    The FSA was created to educate society about the conditions that people lived in during the Great Depression. 
12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington, D.C.?
    Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washing, D.C. was "American Gothic," 1942. 
13. Who was Ella Watson?
    Ella Watson was was the women who Gordon Parks photographed for his most famous photograph, American Gothic. 
14. What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?
    The inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic came fom what is now referred to as the American Gothic House.
15. What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?
    Gordon learned how to fight the evil of poetry as well as the evil of racism within a camera.