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Mar. 11--Gordon Parks' life was a testament to creativity, adaptability and perseverance. But Parks had at least two other keys to his success: an artist's eye for conveying a story, and the guts to blaze a path in a country that had set numerous obstacles before him. The 93-year-old Parks, who died earlier this week in Manhattan, achieved many firsts in a career as varied as the portraits he snapped over his adult life, from gang members in Harlem, to a slum child in Brazil, to high fashion in Paris. He knew the camera could be a "weapon" of another sort, and he used it to spotlight the racial and social inequities that existed in America. Basically self-taught, he ...