Talk:Gordon Parks

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Flipped Photo?

There was the following edit made, "02:42, 8 March 2006 SteveHopson (Edited photo for better use illustrating article...," which consisted of cropping and flipping the photo from left to right. Editor SteveHopson has made many, many excellent contributions to the Gordon Parks article, but I do have to question flipping the photo. For comparison, see history version "02:36, 8 March 2006" by user "Crunch". There is no question that cropping the photo has given greater emphasis and visibility to Gordon Parks. Cropping is a generally accepted journalistic and editorial tool to give a better view of the subject matter.

Photo flipping is primarily used as a stylistic tool to make the subject of the photograph, or in this case, the person face the article. It's use in photojournalism is questionable as it gives a false appearance, i.e. making a right handed person appear to be left handed, etc.. In this case, it makes a large wart on the right side of Parks' nose flip to the left side of his nose in the current "SteveHopson" version. Perhaps, Parks was "dual-warted"? Many times, photo flipping from right to left can be identified in print journalism by small asymmetric objects in the photo, i.e. military uniforms with insignia on the wrong side, men's shirts with a single pocket on the wearer's right side, small written objects, automobile photos, etc.. It would appear to me that the use of photo flipping in an encyclopedia article should not be allowed.--TGC55 13:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Point well taken on the photo flipping. I have returned the photo to the original orientation. SteveHopson 15:02, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, as I still had the article on my computer when you made the orientation change, when I hit the refresh button, Parks just flipped left to right. --TGC55 12:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article

This article is looking really great. Parks was an amazing man and I'm proud to have contributed to this biography. Hopefully, this is a fitting tribute.

Now what I think we need to work on most is improving our documentation. SteveHopson 01:55, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Porno novel?

Back in the days of the late 60s, early 70s, when visual porn of every stripe hadn't yet driven the written stuff off the market, I had a paperback porn novel whose title escapes me that involved, at least in part, photography. I'd never heard of Gordon Parks at the time, but I then ran across a reference somewhere saying that he was the guy who had written this book under a nom de plume. As I recall, the book did have more about character and general novelistic stuff than the average porn book of the epoch. Any confirmation of this? I didn't see an reference to it in any of the obits. Hayford Peirce 18:03, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

F Word?

In the film section, where it talks about his writing for television, the F word show sup in the middle of the word "television". Any idea how to get rid of this?

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"jesica simpson"

I'm thinking this is not true/relevant.

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