Great Depression Through Photography (After all, a picture is worth a thousand words right?) Create a chart for your observations! Objective Observations Subjective Observations Describe what you see in the photograph -- the forms, structures, and the arrangement of the various elements. Avoid personal feelings or interpretations. Your description should help someone who has not seen the image to visualize it.   Describe your personal feelings, associations and judgments about the image. Always anchor your subjective response in something that is seen. For example:   "I see . . . and it makes me think of . . . ." 3.5 - 4 minutes per image Questions:  What questions does this photograph raise? What else would you need to know?  

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Roosevelt High School, Oakland, California, High school graduate who is unemployed and spends his time hanging around the school. All his energies are spent racing around the school in his cut-down, souped-up Ford, particularly during periods when there are students around to watch him. IMAGE # 3

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IMAGE # 5 San Joaquin Valley, California, April 9, 1940, A couple of the "Li'L fellers" from the families living in the labor contractor's camp are begging BB's for an air gun from a sixteen-year-old member of the Copus crew who, like their parents, is waiting for the promised work to begin.

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Squatter's Camp, Route 70, Arkansas, October, 1935.

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I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean- to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it. IMAGE # 10

Bakersfield, Calif., April 11, 1940, One of two migrant boys in California returning to their families in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Aged 20 and 21 years, they have been staying with relatives on relief in one FSA camp or another. They intend to return to California in September in time for cotton picking. Their stay in California had not been profitable. Said one, "I coulda done better if I'd stayed home. Heck, I was doin' better. But that there gov'ment camp is sure swell." IMAGE # 11

                                                                                  

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