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PREWRITE – GREAT

DEPRESSION Post TKAM

Research and Writing Project:

Background Knowledge

Activity before the assignment

Photo journalists for the US Gov’t

in the 1930s

THE DUST BOWL AREA:

RESETTLEMENT ADM. :

Working for the US

gov’t

THE FSA AND ITS PHOTOGRAPHERS:

SOME OF THE “STAND OUT” PHOTOGRAPHERS:

Dorthea Lange Jack Delano

EXAMPLES

Lange Delano

Gordon Parks= Also wrote

A Choice of Weapons

Bourke-White

“MAGGIE THE INDESTRUCTIBLE” : "The woman who had

been torpedoed in the Mediterranean, strafed by the Luftwaffe, stranded on an Arctic island, bombarded in Moscow, and pulled out of the Chesapeake when her chopper crashed, was known to the Life staff as 'Maggie the Indestructible.'"

Gordon Parks Bourke-White

SHE IS ALSO FAMOUS FOR….

Buchenwald photo, 1945 Gandhi photo, 1946

Marion Post-Wolcott

Russell Lee

PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO LIKED COLOR FILM….

Wolcott Lee

Arthur Rothstein

POST- STORM….

Truth in photography: What do you see?

W. Eugene Smith

“The Walk to Paradise Garden”

1930S WRITING ACTIVITY:

Each image will remain up for about 2 minutes.

Write the number of the picture and title

Make a bulleted list of your reactions to the picture. BE DESCRIPTIVE!

You may “pass” on photos.

You must have 6 reactions, minimum, done at the end of the hour.

[Total of 30 pictures to choose from ]

ASSIGNMENT: DRAFT DUE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15. FINAL DUE FRIDAY FOR BONUS- MONDAY FOR REGULAR

EX.: A “HUNGRY”

#1: DUST STORM – STRATFORD, TX

#2: JOBLESS MEN BILLBOARD

#3: PICKING COTTON

#4: FORMER SLAVE/NOW SHARECROPPER’S HANDS

#5: “AMERICAN GOTHIC”

#6: SHARECROPPERS

#7: FARMLAND EROSION, GA

#8: DUST STORM ENVELOPS

#9: “DAMAGED CHILD”

10: “MIGRANT MOTHER”

11: BREADLINE

12: LETTUCE PICKERS

13: POTATO BOYS

14: FSA TENANT FARMER’S CO-OP

15: FARMER ON RESETTLED LAND

16: MISSISSIPPI DELTA CHILDREN

17: SKULL

18: FARO FAMILY DINNER

19: FISHIN’

20. PIT STOP

#21: CA PEA-PICKER CAMP

#22: PLOWED UNDER

#23: NY SHANTY TOWN XMAS

#24: IN NEED

#25: PEACH PICKER

#26 “NO CHARITY”

#27 “ON A BEAM”

#28 “GIVE MY DAD A JOB”

#29 “HOOVERILLLE”

#30 “UNEMPLOYED”

ASSIGNMENT: DRAFT OF STORY DUE TUESDAY, FEB. 18TH

Choose a photo- imagine the “story” that might go with it.

Make up a newspaper story for a 1934 Maycomb Daily newspaper Atticus will read– write it in that style.

Create a headline for the story with the picture in mind.

Create a caption to go beneath the photo.

Give credit to the photographer if known.

We are in the lab next week on FRIDAYfor typing it up, putting in the pic and printing.