Gordon Parks
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Sep 22, 2026
Cam KirkGUEST
I just was taking pictures of my friends.
Cam KirkGUEST
It took someone that I didn't know that had saw a collection of my work and was like, "Boy, you like the Gordon Parks, the da, da, da.
Cam KirkGUEST
This, like what you doing, you don't even know what you doing.
Cam KirkGUEST
It's da, da, da, da, da, it's archival" and they started throwing words at me that I was like, "Word?"
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Deante’ KyleHOST
And then it's like, you know, s- a lot of times sports is, like, a genetic thing, but then as you get more advanced, it becomes about IQ and awareness, and, like, understanding of the game.
Deante’ KyleHOST
And I was like, "You can't just pick up a ball and say, 'I'ma do this.' Like, you have to care about this shit.
Deante’ KyleHOST
You have to know about it." You know what I'm saying? Like, if you don't know who Gordon Parks is, nigga, why are you doing photography, especially as a Black person? You know what I'm saying? I got a whole Gordon Parks book in my studio just 'cause I know, like, he captured this moment in time-
Cam KirkGUEST
Mm
Sullivan SummerHOST
he knew i
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
think he's like the boys in this in this simulator they i think those people actually knew they were going to be in history i really do you know i just like yeah like at some point he just like okay you know my family background you know, this art, I got this photo from this artist, these photographers, you know, Gordon Parks, Henri Bresson.
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
I mean, you know, I think he just knew, some people just know that, okay, well, you know, I'm here and I'm kind of this historical figure.
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
Sometimes I think they already know that, you know, and I think Langston was one of those.
Sullivan SommerHOST
he knew i
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
think he's like the boys in this in this simulator they i think those people actually knew they were going to be in history i really do you know i just like yeah like at some point he just like okay you know my family background you know, this art, I got this photo from this artist, these photographers, you know, Gordon Parks, Henri Bresson.
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
I mean, you know, I think he just knew, some people just know that, okay, well, you know, I'm here and I'm kind of this historical figure.
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
Sometimes I think they already know that, you know, and I think Langston was one of those.
Sullivan SummerHOST
he knew i
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
think he's like the boys in this in this simulator they i think those people actually knew they were going to be in history i really do you know i just like yeah like at some point he just like okay you know my family background you know, this art, I got this photo from this artist, these photographers, you know, Gordon Parks, Henri Bresson.
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
I mean, you know, I think he just knew, some people just know that, okay, well, you know, I'm here and I'm kind of this historical figure.
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
Sometimes I think they already know that, you know, and I think Langston was one of those.
Sullivan SommerHOST
he knew i
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
think he's like the boys in this in this simulator they i think those people actually knew they were going to be in history i really do you know i just like yeah like at some point he just like okay you know my family background you know, this art, I got this photo from this artist, these photographers, you know, Gordon Parks, Henri Bresson.
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
I mean, you know, I think he just knew, some people just know that, okay, well, you know, I'm here and I'm kind of this historical figure.
Randall Maurice JelksGUEST
Sometimes I think they already know that, you know, and I think Langston was one of those.
Jared PolinHOST
Life Magazine was just the best.
Jared PolinHOST
It really is the best with Gordon Parks and the other photographers that were a part of it.
Jared PolinHOST
I got it.
Jared PolinHOST
I wonder, is there a book? Hold on.
John SiuntresHOST
And then you get the, I hope I'm saying the right filmmaker.
John SiuntresHOST
Was it Gordon Brown, I think, that did the Shaft movies? Yeah.
John SiuntresHOST
Sounds right.
John SiuntresHOST
Yeah, I think it was Gordon Brown.
John SiuntresHOST
And again, David would correct me if he was on the call.
John SiuntresHOST
David would
Traci N. ToddGUEST
the illustrators, the Dylans, Diane, and I can't remember his first name.
Traci N. ToddGUEST
But, you know, there are references to Gordon Parks and just all of these things that she thought about when she, Leo, Leo Dillon, Diane and Leo Dillon, all these things that she thought about as she was creating the color palette and the mood.
Traci N. ToddGUEST
And she even referenced Sun Ra.
Traci N. ToddGUEST
I mean, I just, it's all very, very thoughtful.
Traci N. ToddGUEST
We were not as friendly as we are now that we've been on tour, but yeah, You know, I knew her, but I didn't know the depth of her care and concern and, you know, had no idea how much research she would do about this.
Traci N. ToddGUEST
And she will say that she wanted this to feel like... you know, looking at an old family album.
Traci N. ToddGUEST
So she pulled colors from Gordon Parks' work, from the civil rights movement, you know, those sort of sea greens and those blues and the pinks.
Traci N. ToddGUEST
And also really, she is the one who identified this as an Afrofuturist work.
Kathy BooneHOST
Posnock is equally good on Ellington's cultivation of quote-unquote composure and achieved serenity in music and life alike, and on the repressed anger that this presumably cost him.
Kathy BooneHOST
He tellingly quotes the photographer Gordon Parks on Ellington's socializing of cool.
Kathy BooneHOST
Ellington never grinned.
Kathy BooneHOST
He smiled.
Herb BoydGUEST
And then, of course, we have to talk about some of my other surrogate fathers, too.
Herb BoydGUEST
Ossie Davis and Gordon Parks and Dr. John Henry Clark, to say nothing of Percy Sutton.
Herb BoydGUEST
Those are my surrogate fathers, Carl, over the years.
Herb BoydGUEST
And each of them, I've had a chance to work with all of them.
Carl NelsonHOST
Share some of your interactions with Dr. Clark for us.
Herb BoydGUEST
Yeah, no doubt about it.
Herb BoydGUEST
And then one other surrogate father before we get back to Dr. Clark and Dr. Pitt, and that's Gordon Parks.
Herb BoydGUEST
And, you know, just an outstanding photographer and filmmaker.
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