He bought a camera for $7.50 and changed American cinema forever. 📷🎬 Gordon Parks was a photographer, filmmaker, composer, author, and poet. Born into poverty in 1912, he: 📸 Documented poverty and racism for Life magazine 🎥 Became the first Black director financed by a major Hollywood studio (The Learning Tree, 1969) 🔥 Directed Shaft (1971), launching the blaxploitation era ✊🏾 Used his art as activism for civil rights From sleeping on streetcars to breaking barriers in Hollywood, Gordon Pa

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