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​Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, 1936
Picture

​Farm Security Administration (FSA) Photographers - American Memory (FSA images), FSA Overview
Dorothea Lange Moma Exhibition, The Fateful Roadside Stop That Led to Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” 


​The History of Photojournalism


Photojournalism Analysis


Choose one photograph within this genre that grabs you.  It should be one that you'll never forget!!

​STEP 1: Meet the photo. Quickly scan the photo.
  • What do you notice first?  Why?
  • Is there a caption?  What does it say?

STEP 2: Observe its parts.
  • List the people, objects and activities you see.

STEP 3: Try to make sense of it. (Answer as best you can. The caption, if available, may help.)
  • Who took this photo?
  • Where is it from?
  • When is it from?
  • What was happening at the time in history this photo was taken?
  • Why was it taken? (List evidence from the photo or your knowledge about the photographer that led you to your conclusion.)

STEP 4: Explore other sites to gather historical evidence to help you understand this event or topic along with the photographer and his/her mission.  Include your sources and a summary of your findings.
  • What did you find out from these sources? 
  • How did it deepen your understanding of this image?

Photojournalism Resources

What is Photojournalism? 
Photojournalists and Publications
Action and Street Photography 
The Family of Man 
Alexia Foundation: Photographers as Agents of Change

War Photography
Famous Photojournalists You Should Know
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NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PHOTO ARCHIVES:
Today’s Front Pages https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/#1
National Geographic - Photo Galleries
American Memory (LOC) – FSA images
Farm Security Administration - FSA Overview
AP Images – good for discovery, but to download, you need to subscribe
National Press Photographers (NPPA)
Center for Documentary Studies (Duke) – Exhibits
College Photographer of the Year – Winning Images (browse by category menu on left of page)
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Flickr Commons – search box midway down page
Guardian (UK) Eyewitness – featured photo each day with informative caption and pro tip.  Free iPad app available too.
International Center of Photography’s Research Center – both Exhibitions and Major Holdings include photojournalists
Life Photo Archive (1860’s to 1970’s)
National Archives (U.S.) – incl. many photographs
National Geographic – Photography
New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery
New York Times Lens photojournalism blog
Newseum – Online Exhibits
Pictures of the Year International – Archive
World Press Photo Archive – open archive on right

PUBLICATIONS, RESOURCES, & PROJECTS:
Journalist's Toolbox

American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS)
British Journal of Photography – Documentary
Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties (Getty)
Life Magazine – featured photojournalism stories
New (50’s-60’s) Documentary Tradition in Photography – Lisa Hostetler, MoMA
News in Pictures (list of links)
Pulitzer – Breaking News Photography
SocialDocumentary.net (photo projects to promote global awareness of social issues)
Telling Their Stories: Lingering Legacy of Katrina Photos – Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Texas Center for Documentary Photography
VII Magazine – work of 29 photojournalists

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
Library of Congress, American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html


American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
Library of Congress, American Memory Project

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/wauhtml/aipnhome.html


Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955
Library of Congress, American Memory Project

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/gotthome.html


California Heritage Digital Image Access Project
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/CalHeritage/


Connecticut History Online
Connecticut Historical Society, Thomas H. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and the Mystic Seaport Museum

http://www.cthistoryonline.org/
Florida Photographic Collection
Florida State Archives

http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/

William Gedney Photographs and Writings
Digital Scriptorium, Duke University

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney


Hawaiian Newspapers, War Records, and Trust Territory 
Image Collections

University of Hawai’i System Libraries
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/research/digicoll.html

Helios: The Smithsonian American Art Museum 
Photography Collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum

http://AmericanArt.si.edu/helios/index.html
American Photographs: The First Century, Between Home and Heaven, and Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype 

History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
Library of Congress, American Memory Project

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html


Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library Digital Library Collection

http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/


National Museum of American History Virtual Exhibitions
Smithsonian Institution

http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/category.cfm?category=online
Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge's Photography of Motion, Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974, and A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1965-1971

New Deal Network: A Guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
 
http://www.newdeal.feri.org/library/index.htm


Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
Library of Congress, American Memory Project

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html


Still Picture Unit
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/
media_formats/photographs_in_college_park.html
Photographs of the American West 1861-1912 , Pictures of African Americans During World War II , Pictures of the American City , Pictures of World War II 

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
Library of Congress, American Memory Project

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html


Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 
1923-1959
Library of Congress, American Memory Project

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html


Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of 
Lynching in America
James Allen, Collector

http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/


​What is Photography's Relationship with the Truth?  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/fsa/tool.html
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