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Gordon Parks, an Uncommon card
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.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 175 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 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.
- Parks was one of the first black American filmmakers to direct films within the Hollywood system, developing films relating the experience of slaves and struggling black Americans, and helping create the "blaxploitation" genre.
- The National Film Registry cites The Learning Tree as "the first feature film by a black director to be financed by a major Hollywood studio."
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gordon Parks article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Gordon Parks
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gordon Parks (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Iris Schneider, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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