Summary: In his final film as director, Gordon Parks turned the camera upon himself and created a deeply personal and remarkably poetic self-portrait. Moments Without Proper Names blends Parks's striking photographs with newly-shot footage of the artist, his own musical compositions, and personal reminiscences performed by a trio of esteemed actors: Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOM

Parks, Gordon 1912-

Contents: Awakening -- Longing -- Remembering -- Waiting -- Returning -- Homecoming.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press Book 2000

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 811.54 PAR

Summary: A look at the African-American photographer, poet, novelist, composer and filmmaker Gordon Parks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAL

Summary: Based on Parks' semi-autobiographical novel, the film follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LEA

Summary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHA

Sandler, Martin W.

Summary: This book features photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration by ten renowned photographers, featuring scenes from regions throughout the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 770 SAN

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 770 SAN

Summary: Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE Sha

Contents: Indhold: Music Box: Songs Of Sunshine(4:16 min) -- Hennessy, Christie: High In The Trees(2:44 min) -- Raven, Michael: Death And The Lady(4:29 min) -- Penny Wager: Marcie(4:05 min) -- Folkal Point: Sweet Sir Galahad(3:37 min) -- Donald, Mike: Visions Of Cumbria(2:48 min) -- Blue Horizon: Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye(3:36 min) -- Cunningham, Porter: Photographs(2:27 min) -- Peregrine: Lazy...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2022

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BEF

Sparks, Jordin

Contents: Work from home (featuring B.O.B.) -- 1000 (featuring J-Doe) -- Right here right now -- Double tap (featuring 2 Chainz) -- Boyz in the hood -- Silhouette -- They don't give -- Left...right? -- Casual love (featuring Shaggy) -- Unhappy (featuring Elijah Blake) -- Tell him that I love him -- 11:11 -- 100 years -- It ain't you.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Louder Than Life 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SPA