Gordon Parks is an American photographer. All of the pictures above are from his project titled "Back to Fort Scott" as Parks was born in Fort Scott. Kansas. I feel like Parks was trying to portray his life in Fort Scott when he was younger b y going back and taking these pictures. Out of all of Parks' projects on his website, only two are in color. One title "Later Abstractions," and one title "Segregation story." So obvious one of his main themes or ideas was to capture history, more specifically, the civil rights movement, while taking absolutely everything into account, color included. That being said, I really like the way back and white looks in the first picture. The subject's face is highlighted and you can tell that natural light was probably used in the frame. The second and third picture look a bit washed out to me. I feel like its very noisy and I wish they were in detail like the first photo is.
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