The best documentary about a photographer I ever watched

Yesterday I watched on HBO MAX A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks, a 2021 documentary film that follows the life of the photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks

While waiting for the autobiography of the same title to arrive, yesterday I saw the best documentary on a photographer ever made. Why do I say this? See it and then tell me.

​Here we are talking about a photographer who challenged a system with photos that were a direct blow to the teeth of a country's racism.And he did it as a LIFE photographer, so using the mainstream of that time. But Parks was a multi-talented artist, writer and director, including that legendary Shaft which is a masterpiece of black cinema.

​What I also like is the documentary approach because it is not reticent but at the same time does not exploit any sensationalistic temptation on the character. But perhaps I am biased in considering Parks a more important photographer than Henri Cartier-Bresson.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance and poverty. - Gordon Parks

This documentary is not just a tribute to a great visual artist who exposed all the contradictions of a country that claims to be a land of freedom when it is only hypocrisy and fiction, but also a testimony to the importance of the work of us photographers, of the relevance as we are historians of the present as I say here:

And with that said, I want to say THANK YOU, GORDON TO SHOWS US THE WAY.