Gordon Parks is a living legend. At age eighty-eight, he can look back on accomplishments in many fields, including fiction, ppoetry, film, and music. But first and foremost, Parks is a photographer a man whose indelible photojournalism, including two decades at Life magazine, has made him one of this century's most esteemed image makers. Accompanied throughtoutbt Parks's recollections and reflections, nearly 300 images collected in Half Past Autumn give us the full measure of this photographer's achievements for the first time. |