zondag, mei 18, 2003
Gordon Parks, a world-renowned photographer, received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Connecticut last Saturday.
Those people who want to use a camera should have something in mind, there's something they want to show, something they want to say... I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.
Gordon Parks
foto Chris Cone
Those people who want to use a camera should have something in mind, there's something they want to show, something they want to say... I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.
Gordon Parks
foto Chris Cone
# posted by Jan-Edward : 16:49
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