So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

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For the Scottish sports journalist and former footballer see Gordon Parks (footballer)
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30 1912 – March 7 2006) was an American photographer musician writer and film director.