Fort Scott Community College, Fort Scott, KS
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(Lunch and Learn Event) “Back to Fort Scott Now and I Needed Paris Update”
Fri, Oct 06
|Fort Scott
The Reimaging of Gordon Parks Back to Fort Scott Photographs in 1950


Time & Location
Oct 06, 2023, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Fort Scott, 2108 Horton St, Fort Scott, KS 66701, USA
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About the event
(Lunch and Learn Event) “Back to Fort Scott Now and I Needed Paris Update” with Michael Cheers, Associate Professor, Photojournalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, San Jose State University and Professor Shreepad Joglekar, Department of Art & Associate Professor, Kansas State University. The presentation of the “Back To Fort Scott, Now”, project, is the reimaging and tribute of Gordon Parks photos that he had taken in Fort Scott, KS in 1950 when he was on assignment for LIFE Magazine to do a story on segregated schools and to follow up with his classmates that he graduated with from the segregated Plaza School that was here in Fort Scott. Cheers & Joglekar will share the research with the project and discuss the photo exhibition along with a video presentation(s) of the project. Professor Cheers will also provide the update and share photos of the “I Needed Paris” project that took…
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