1. The Story Behind the Picture
First Oral Report
Instructions
Prof. Myrna Monllor

2. 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."

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Who took the picture. Is the photographer famous
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?

6. Prepare a power point presentation about the photograph you selected
Come prepared to speak for ten minutes
Remember you cannot read

7. Jack Ruby Shooting Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)

8. Nicholas Chriss Rosa Parks in Montgomery Bus (1956)

9. Donald L. Robinson Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston (1965)

10. Patty Hearst Robs Bank (1974)

11. Will Counts Little Rock Desegregation(1957)

12. John Filo Massacre at Kent State 1970

13. Bombing of Nagasaki 1945

14. Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother 1936

15. One Small Step for Man 1968

16. Jack Delano Children in Slum, Utuado PR 1942

17. Joe Rosenthal Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima 1945

18. Alan Díaz Elian González in the Spotlight 2000

19. Margaret Bourke White Have You Seen Their Faces 1937

20. Murray Becker The Hinderburg 1937

21. Freddy Alborta The Corpse of Che Guevara 1967

22. Lennart Nilsson How Life Begins 1965

23. Margaret Bourke-White Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel 1946

24. Philippe Halsman Dalí Atomicus 1948

25. Alfred Eisenstaedt The Kiss 1945

26. I Have a Dream 1963

27. Nick Ut Napalm Girl 1972

28. Kevin Carter Vulture Watching a Starving Child 1993

29. Abu Ghraib Prison 2004

30. Eddie Adams Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief 1968

31. John Daniels First Flight of the Wright Flyer 1903

32. Max Aguilera Born Twice 1999

33. Elliot Erwitt Segregated Water Fountains 1950

34. Charles Porter Oklahoma City Bombing 1995

35. Thomas E. Franklin Lunch Atop a Skyscraper 1932

36. Frank Fournier Omayra Sánchez 1985

37. JFK Junior Salutes His Father’s Casket 1963

38. Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics 1936

39. Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis 1927

40. Iain Macmillan Abbey Road 1969

41. Mandela Visits Robben Island1990

42. Ponce Massacre 1937

43. Nat Fein The Babe Bows Out 1948

44. Patrick Farrell After the Storm 2008