The Cinematic Images of Gordon Parks
Maurice Berger, The New York Times
August 2017
When Gordon Parks photographed Duke Ellington during a television appearance in 1960, he took a series of photographs as the musician’s image flickered across control room monitors. These striking pictures would mark the beginning of Mr. Parks’s long, if relatively forgotten, relationship with television. Over the next 25 years, he directed several television documentaries and films, including a drama based on Solomon Northup’s autobiography, “Twelve Years a Slave.” […]