Photographer & director

Gordon Parks

The first Black photographer at Life, and the first to direct a major Hollywood studio film. He also wrote novels and composed music.

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s-particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans-and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s, for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree.

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Born
1912-11-30, Fort Scott, Kansas, USAA Saturday
Died
2006-03-07, New York, New York, USAA Tuesday, aged 93
At birth
Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Leo
Nationality
United States
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1912-11-30, Fort Scott, Kansas, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/Chicagothe zone used then

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Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunSagittarius8°11′Direct
MoonLeo28°52′Direct
MercurySagittarius24°25′Retrograde
VenusCapricorn15°16′Direct
MarsSagittarius0°18′Direct
JupiterSagittarius22°28′Direct
SaturnGemini0°00′Retrograde
UranusAquarius0°38′Direct
NeptuneCancer25°44′Retrograde
PlutoGemini29°26′Retrograde

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Death Chart

2006-03-07, New York, New York, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/New_Yorkthe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunPisces16°58′Direct
MoonGemini27°04′Direct
MercuryPisces25°10′Retrograde
VenusAquarius1°53′Direct
MarsGemini9°09′Direct
JupiterScorpio18°50′Retrograde
SaturnLeo5°07′Retrograde
UranusPisces11°04′Direct
NeptuneAquarius18°22′Direct
PlutoSagittarius26°37′Direct

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