Hard Cover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 173 pages. Blue cloth in dustjacket. Signed boldly by Parks with his name alone to the ffe. Slight toning to edges of cloth, else fine, in a near fine jacket.

"Autobiographical to a large extent, photographs and verse reflect many aspects of the highly emotional, uncommonly eventful life of the Gordon Parks: the confusion and poverty he experienced as a child growing up in Fort Scott, Kansas; the bigotry, drug addiction, terror, chaos, and blatant inhumanity to which he was exposed as a rising journalist and photographer; and the beauty and sophistication with which his professional career is associated today." (text from front flap)

A fine signed book from the American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree.