Gordon Parks was the first African American photographer for Life and Vogue magazines. He also screen wrote and directed several films, including The Learning Tree, based on a novel he wrote, and Shaft. Parks published several memoirs and retrospectives as well, including A Choice of Weapons. Parks told an interviewer in 1999, "I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera."

Panelists:

Philip Brookman, consulting curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and editor of Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 with the National Gallery of Art, The Gordon Parks Foundation, and Steidl.
 

Wing Young Huie, photographer Huie has captured the complex cultural realities of American society for over 40 years. In 2018, he was honored with the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, the only photographer ever to receive the award in its 23-year history.

John Maggio, Emmy-award winning principal producer, director and writer with Ark Media, and director of the documentary A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks for HBO Documentary Films. 

Julieanna L. Richardson, Founder and President of The HistoryMakers, a national, 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories.
 

This Cardozo Art Law Society event is co-sponsored by the FAME Center, the Black Law Students Association, and the Filmmakers' Legal Clinic, and is presented as part of the Office of Career Services' Entertainment Law Week.

The Zoom link will be sent to those registered on the date of the event.

Contact janette.payne@yu.edu if you have any questions.