Gordon Parks - Part 1

1. The doctor saved his life by dunking him in a tub of ice-cold water.
2. He was born in Kansas.
3. She told him very few blacks went to college because they just weren't college material; they mostly turned out as porters and maids.
4. He was 15.
5. He moved to Minnesota.
6. He never passed college, but he received an honorary degree from Princeton.
7. Gordon became cocky from his previous photographs and walked into a clothes store to take fashion photos.
8. It is a repeated exposure of a photo plate to light, which produces ghost images.
9. He was the husband of the woman who told him to go to Chicago.
10.  He played the piano.
11. They worked to document and educate Americans about the hardships of the Great Depression.
12. He told Gordon to put his camera away, go to a nearby store to buy a coat, then go to a fancy restaurant and watch a movie at a cinema.
13. She was the cleaning lady at the Farm Security Administration.
14. The inspiration came from Flemish Renaissance Art, which he studied during his travels in Europe.
15. Gordon learned that photographers couldn't take pictures that were too provocative or radical.