Hungry Heart : A Memoir

English

ISBN: 0743269039

EAN: 9780743269032

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers/Photography / Individual Photographers / General/Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage/

Publisher: Washington Square Press

Release Date: 01/15/2012

Synopsis: Acclaimed 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.InA Hungry Heart,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 forVogue;photographing black revolutionaries to writing, composing the soundtrack for, and directing the Hollywood movie version of his novelThe Learning Tree.More than a self-portrait of the artist,A Hungry Heartis a striking account of an American era.

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Hungry Heart : A Memoir

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.94 inches

Width: 5.31 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 10.48 oz

Pages: 352