Photojournalism - a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story
Jan 01, 2016
Photojournalism - a particular form of journalism that creates images
in order to tell a news story
Documentary Photography – images that try to capture real events in daily life, usually involving people, while trying to tell a true, narrative story.
The 1st war photographs
1855Crimean War in EuropeTaken by Roger FentonMostly of landscapes and
posed group shots of soldiers
1st photographs of actual battles
American Civil War (1861 – 1865)
Mathew Brady & Timothy O’Sullivan
Reveal the human casualties of war
Timothy O’SullivanTimothy O’SullivanMathew BradyMathew Brady
Social Activism
• Social Activist - a person who wants to bring social change.
• Jacob Riis – a crusading New York newspaper reporter in the 1890’s who wrote about & photographed the desperate living conditions of immigrants in NYC’s Lower East Side slums.
• “How the Other Half Lives”
Jacob Riis – “How the Other Half Lives”
Lewis Hine
• 1908-1930 photographed & campaigned to change child labor laws in the U.S.
• Images highlighted dangers of working in factories and mines for children
• His photographs changed the child labor laws
Lewis Hine
Documenting the Depression
Farm Security Administration (FSA) – created in 1935 by the government as part of the New Deal as an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.
FSA hired photographers to document America’s rural poverty
Walker Evans Dorthea LangeGordan Parks
Walker EvansWalker Evans
• Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife [Allie Mae Burroughs], 1936, Gelatin silver print, 20.5 x 15.3 cm,
Documenting the Great Depression
Dorthea Lange
Migrant Mother Woman of the High Plains
Gordan Parks
American Gothic, 1942 ( Ella Watson) American Gothic, Grant Wood
Gordan Parks
Mrs. Ella Watson with three grandchildren and her adopted daughter, Farm Security Administration, Washington, D.C.
Jodi Cobb
Photojournalism Collage
• Research the following photojournalists and copy & paste 4 photos from each. Print and bring to class Thursday, May 10, 2012
• Gordan Parks, Walker Evans, Dorthea Lange, Lewis Hines, Margaret Bourke-White, and Jacob Riis
• Must include:• Bourke-White – “Workman in the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation Dry Dock, 1935• Parks- “American Gothic, 1942 (Ella Wathson)”
• Use the Helpful websites:• www.magnumphotos.com,
www.nationalgeographic.com
Photo-Essay
• A series of photographs, similar to a documentary film, that tries to tell a larger and more complex true story.
• Shows more aspects of the story & focuses on the smaller details that might otherwise be left out.
• Can show a sequence of events• Often becomes a book• www.unicef.com
Homework, due 5/18
• Photograph what lunch time means to you. Photograph your subculture during lunch
• Document what goes on during your lunch time. Need at least 5 photographs. Be creative!
• Ex.: the long line waiting for food, telling the lunch lady what you want, sitting with friends and talking
• Ex.: walking around outside with friends, getting food from the vending machine, etc.
Final Project due 5/18, presentations 5/22
• Choose a topic from the list on the hand-out or come up with your own topic and create a Photo-Essay
• Six (6) 8” x 10” photos related to one topic or story• Images will be in an art portfolio, or binder with plastic sleeves• Each image will have a caption affix to the
outside of each sleeve.• Cover Page including: your name, pd., and photo-essay subject
title• 1 page essay describing your photographs, what is going on in
the photographs, and why you chose the topic• Times New Roman 12 pt.• Normal to narrow margins
Bell work
5/8 – Make a list of 10 things you are passionate about, such as people, places, organizations, events, etc.