Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother, 1936
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
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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 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) 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.htmlPhotographs 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 |
Diana Hardin Walker, Foxcroft School Class of ’59, spent more than 20 years photographing U.S. Presidents and their families for Time magazine. From the Fords to the Clintons, she photographed both formal events such as state dinners and press conferences and informal moments that give us a glimpse into the very private lives of these very public individuals.
On NPR’s program, All Things Considered, Diana spoke of one such private moment when First Lady Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea were standing in the grand foyer of the White House before the Inaugural. Hillary asked her daughter to show her what she was wearing and Chelsea opened her coat to reveal a mini-skirt. Diana caught on film, this classic mother-daughter moment when Hillary’s expression questioned her daughter’s choice of attire.
During the fall of 2003 through January of 2004, the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. hosted a retrospective exhibition of 135 photographs of just such moments. Many of her photographs are showcased in her book Public and Private: Twenty Years of Photographing the Presidency.
During a private tour of the exhibit arranged for Foxcroft students in December 2003, Diana shared the story of how she was first introduced to photography at Foxcroft, how her work evolved from that initial introduction and the approach she takes to covering her subjects that resulted in such remarkable images.
On NPR’s program, All Things Considered, Diana spoke of one such private moment when First Lady Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea were standing in the grand foyer of the White House before the Inaugural. Hillary asked her daughter to show her what she was wearing and Chelsea opened her coat to reveal a mini-skirt. Diana caught on film, this classic mother-daughter moment when Hillary’s expression questioned her daughter’s choice of attire.
During the fall of 2003 through January of 2004, the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. hosted a retrospective exhibition of 135 photographs of just such moments. Many of her photographs are showcased in her book Public and Private: Twenty Years of Photographing the Presidency.
During a private tour of the exhibit arranged for Foxcroft students in December 2003, Diana shared the story of how she was first introduced to photography at Foxcroft, how her work evolved from that initial introduction and the approach she takes to covering her subjects that resulted in such remarkable images.
"Laughing With the Queen"
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"There's the picture of—a public picture of President Reagan laughing with Queen Elizabeth which—it's just—every time I look at it, it makes me laugh. And, she was saying something like she knew that—she knew that the Puritans had brought to the New World a lot of customs from her country, but since she'd been slogging around the rain in California (rain and rain and rain), she had no idea they'd also brought over the rotten weather. And I knew when the punch line was in that picture because I read her speech before we got there. They often give you—give the press the remarks that are going to be made at a dinner because the journalists are on deadline and have to get their stories into their papers the night before. So often they're—they get them before the event actually happens. And, I read her speech, and it was so obvious it was such a funny thing to say that I was ready. That's what part of being a photojournalist is—you have to be aware of what's going on." - Diana Walker |
