life: Years before he became LIFE’s first African-American staff photographer, the young and talented Gordon Parks an afternoon with Gordon Parks ©frank jackson 1997 © Light and LettersView full size

life:

Years before he became LIFE’s first African-American staff photographer, the young and talented Gordon Parks

an afternoon with Gordon Parks ©frank jackson 1997

an afternoon with Gordon Parks ©frank jackson 1997 © Light and Letters