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History of Photography Part 4: AWQ4MI Mrs. E. Kalinowski History of Photography Part 4: Photojournalism, Social Reform, Ethnography: Social Documents and the American Urge for Social Uplift

An interest in representing the “un-represented.” 19th century: Million of immigrants came to USA Seeking freedom, opportunity, a better life New immigrants didn’t find the ‘American Dream’ and were left jobless, hungry, in poor health, homeless, psychologically beaten down The Result? 40,000 people entered workhouses or asylums Children joined gangs Photographers understood this social emergency and used photography to document evidence of poor living conditions to create change for immigrants The Other: A person who is different (culturally, economically, socially, etc.), from the West

Photojournalism Communicating news with photographs instead of text Muckracking: Exposing political/social corruption to the public. Flash powder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87SCTEsIufY Jacob A. Riis, 5 Cents a Spot (How the Other Half Lives), 1890. A journalist - used photography to better convey conditions of immigrants

Social Reform Making changes in society and its perception http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLWM6M8__X4 Lewis W. Hine, Steelworker, 85 Stories up (left – looking north to Central Park/right – above Rockefeller Centre), 1931. A sociologist- used photography to reveal dismal labour conditions and how people became insignificant in the urban/city landscape

Ethnography A ‘scientific’/visual description of individuals/cultures/peoples Photographers took photos according to their own view and controlled the Other’s visual identity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXRwEenveRI Edward S. Curtis, Bear Bull-Blackfoot, 1926. A self-taught photographer- documented Native Americans in a non-object/subject way (he used a ‘white, European culture filter’ that made natives appear romantic, pictorial, soft-focused, nostalgic, not assimilated, emotional & used props to stage scenes/people)

Ethnography as Social Consciousness A ‘scientific’/visual description of individuals/cultures/peoples Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936 (left) & White Angel Breadline, 1931 (right) A photographer – photographed people impacted by WW1 during The Great Depression who became an “Other.” Her work called attention to poverty and directed aid to those in desperate need.