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.