STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: Instructions What’s the story behind the photograph? Try to answer as many of these questions as possible in the next hour, then organize your thoughts into an essay. The history of the times—specific personalities, persons, problems, trends, and events—explain each of these photographs. For your assigned photograph, please research “the story” behind each of these photos. This means: Explain the specific events or issue it refers to. Explaining the issue and the history behind the photo. What factors caused or made this photo possible? Explaining why the photo was probably taken. Explain the immediate history and legacy AFTER the photo. Briefly explain what happened to the photographed persons, the effects of the event, etc.
Every Picture Tells A Story What’s involved? A 1-2 page single spaced paper addressing the questions on the front. Think of yourself as a combination of historian and detective. A presentation of 2-4 minute presentation You’ll have the “slide” on the LCD screen.
WWII Photographs taken in Los Angeles, 1943
1939 rally, Madison Square Garden Photo of an American hero, involved in late thirties politics
Navajo indians, 1943.
U.S. Marines, 1945
Photograph by Robert Capa
Photograph, Dec. 8, 1941
Photograph, Life Magazine August 14, 1945 “Kissing Nurse”
Photograph and Image, American homefront, World War II
Photograph taken At Ramitelli, Italy— March 1945.
Photograph taken, April 1, 1942—in Lone Pine, California. “Japanese arrive”
Two men, standing in a desert in New Mexico, 1945
Spring of 1945
Carlson’s Raiders
Clue words: go for broke, nisei
Cassius Clay in New York with Malcolm X, 1963.
Martin Luther King Jr. and others, April 3, 1968.
Photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1936.
Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, 1936
Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir, 1903
1965, Dolores Huerta
U.S. Marshals escort 6 year old Ruby Bridges From a New Orleans elementary school, where she was the only enrolled black child.
Wounded Knee, 1973.
Black Power: The Black Panthers and the Yellow Peril --Oakland, 1969
Student Elizabeth Eckford on her way to Central High School in Little Rock, Arksansas, 1957.
1968 Olympic Games
Kent State, Ohio 1970
Members of the "Washington Freedom Riders Committee," en route to Washington, D.C. and the Deep South
At the Woolworth’s Diner, Jackson, Mississippi, May 1963.