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I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.
— Gordon Parks
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I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
— Gordon Parks
Tags: people, me, work, life
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
— Gordon Parks
Tags: evils, without, freedom, me
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.
— Gordon Parks
Tags: trying, way, think, fashion
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
— Gordon Parks
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I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.
— Gordon Parks
Tags: white, bad, matter, people
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