# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-parks
# Generated: 2026-08-20T18:13:22.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-parks"
name: "David Parks"
slug: "david-parks"
description: "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."
tagline: "American photographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Gordon_Parks%2C_1984_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Gordon_Parks%2C_1984_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1944-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           29.78
  momentum:             1.6
  historical:           2.401044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1)"
    title: "ديفيد باركس (مصور)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parks_(photographer)"
    title: "David Parks (photographer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5238396"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations