The Story Behind the Picture First Oral Report Instructions Prof. Myrna Monllor
Gordon Parks Gordon Parks American Gothic 1942 "I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty."
Instructions Look at the following set of photographs Choose the one that attracts you the most Each picture includes information about the year it was taken and the photographer who took it
Find out everything you can about the picture –When was it taken? Where was it taken? –Why was it taken? Why is this picture famous? –What was happening in the picture? What was the situation (political, historical)? –Was the picture controversial? Explain.
–Who took the picture? Is the photographer famous? What awards did the photograph receive? –What other famous pictures did the photographer take? –What did the photographer want to express through his/her photograph?
Prepare a power point presentation about the photograph you selected Come prepared to speak for ten minutes Remember you cannot read
Jack Ruby Shooting Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)
Nicholas Chriss Rosa Parks in Montgomery Bus (1956)
Donald L. Robinson Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston (1965)
Patty Hearst Robs Bank (1974)
Will Counts Little Rock Desegregation(1957)
John Filo Massacre at Kent State 1970
Bombing of Nagasaki 1945
Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother 1936
One Small Step for Man 1968
Jack Delano Children in Slum, Utuado PR 1942
Joe Rosenthal Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima 1945
Arthur Sasse Einstein with his Tongue Out 1951
Margaret Bourke White Have You Seen Their Faces 1937
Murray Becker The Hinderburg 1937
Freddy Alborta The Corpse of Che Guevara 1967
Lennart Nilsson How Life Begins 1965
Margaret Bourke-White Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel 1946
Philippe Halsman Dalí Atomicus 1948
Alfred Eisenstaedt The Kiss 1945
I Have a Dream 1963
Nick Ut Napalm Girl 1972
Kevin Carter Vulture Watching a Starving Child 1993
Abu Ghraib Prison 2004
Eddie Adams Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief 1968
John Daniels First Flight of the Wright Flyer 1903
Max Aguilera Born Twice 1999
Elliot Erwitt Segregated Water Fountains 1950
Charles Porter Oklahoma City Bombing 1995
Oded Balilty The Power of One 2007
Thomas E. Franklin Lunch Atop a Skyscraper 1932
Frank Fournier Omayra Sánchez 1985
JFK Junior Salutes His Father’s Casket 1963
Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics 1936
Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis 1927
Iain Macmillan Abbey Road 1969
Mandela Visits Robben Island1990
Ponce Massacre 1937