Photography

Photography as Witness

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Questions

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Why is photography used to document historic events?

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Alexander Gardner

Alexander Gardner. Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg from Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War (1865). July 1863.

Describe the scene in this photograph. What is being depicted?

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Jacob Riis. Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot. 1889.

Describe the scene in this photograph. What is being depicted?

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Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. 1936

What does this photograph communicate about its subjects?

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Gilles Peress. Untitled (boy with hand to head). 1994.

What do you think is going on in this photograph?

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Gilles Peress. Untitled (Boy with Hand to Head). 1994.

How are these images similar? How are they different?

Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. 1936.