{"title":"Gordon Parks","description":"Gordon Parks was Life magazine's first Black photographer. His retrospective book of art photography, Half Past Autumn,  published in 1997, coincided with an exhibition organized by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., which traveled in the United States until 2003, and an HBO documentary that aired in 2000. He has authored numerous books of art, fiction, memoir (including A Star for Noon),  photographs, and a CD of his music. He published The Learning Tree,  a novel, in 1963, and three previous autobiographies, A Choice of Weapons, To Smile in Autumn,  and Voices in the Mirror. He died in March 2006 at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.","products":[{"product_id":"a-hungry-heart-a-memoir-paperback","title":"A Hungry Heart: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, novelist, and memoirist, Gordon Parks has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eA Hungry Heart, \u003c\/i\u003e Parks reflects on the people and events that shaped him: from growing up poor on the Kansas prairie to crisscrossing the country on the North Coast Limited; documenting poverty and injustice in Chicago to doing fashion spreads for \u003ci\u003eVogue;\u003c\/i\u003e photographing black revolutionaries to writing, composing the soundtrack for, and directing the Hollywood movie version of his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Learning Tree.\u003c\/i\u003e More than a self-portrait of the artist, \u003ci\u003eA Hungry Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is a striking account of an American era.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433658482911,"sku":"9780743269032","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SfnHbZLAll9780743269032.webp?v=1790016768"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/gordon-parks.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}