{"product_id":"gordon-parks-collected-works-9783869305301","title":"Gordon Parks: Collected Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis five-volume collection surveys five decades of Gordon Parks photography. It is the most extensive publication to document his legendary career. Widely recognized as the most important and influential African-American photographer of the twentieth century  Parks combined a unique documentary and artistic style with a profound commitment to social justice. Working first for the Farm Security Administration and later for Life magazine  he specialized in extended narrative picture stories on difficult subject matter. Covering crime  poverty  segregation  the politics of race and class and controversial personalities  Parks became legendary for his ability to meld penetrating insight with a lyrical aesthetic. He was thus able to introduce a broad and diverse public to people  issues and ideas they might otherwise have ignored. Parks was remarkably versatile  travelling the world to photograph news events and fashion  as well as the worlds of art  literature  music  theatre and film. Later in life  he reconceived his vision in fundamentally personal and poetic terms  producing color photographs that were allusive rather than descriptive  symbolic rather than literal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45921781383221,"sku":"ByrdShop_3869305304","price":2845.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783869305301.jpg?v=1787601969","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/gordon-parks-collected-works-9783869305301","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}