Gordon Parks' The Learning Tree: Fifty Years Later

Gordon Parks wrote, directed, and scored the first major Hollywood film to be directed by a Black American, The Learning Tree (1969). Clips from the film will be shown as alum of the Department of Photography & Imaging and 2019 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow Hank Willis Thomas and Abbe Schriber (Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University) discuss the ongoing relevance of the film fifty years after its release. Presented by the Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture, New York University in collaboration with The Gordon Parks Foundation (GPF) and in conjunction with the exhibition Exodusters: Hank Willis Thomas at The Gordon Parks Foundation, 48 Wheeler Avenue, Pleasantville, New York, October 25–December 20, 2019. Co-sponsored by Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging.

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