"Recalling a Mission to Capture an Era's Misery" New York Times. 17 October 2008. nytimes.com. 22 October 2008
This article is about the photographers helped shaped a nation. During the Great Depression, Roy Stryker was working with the government to show the poverty going on. He turned these photographes into something monumental. His photos showed the rest of America the hardships everyone was going through, especially the farmers. Today, most of these pictures are in the Library of Congress. They helped define a generation and also photography. This relates to what we're studying in visual literacy because Roy Stryker helped advance photography. A lot of what we study today, he expanded upon.
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I think this is very interesting, you make this guy seem like the father of photography! What he did, however, was/is very important and I think it's cool that his pictures are in the Library of Congress, and we still use things from his pictures today to help analyze others. I wonder what his pictures look like, they seem very interesting to look at and I would like to see them!
It's amazing to think how how new photography was back then compared to now yet they still used it to touch people. Photography is so saught after be humans. We want to see whats going on where we can't be, even if the pictures may be dangerous to take. These pictures teach so much about what happened and give us a view into the past unlike words in textbooks can. I think this is a really cool article!
This is such an interesting article. How amazing that one man taking photos could help cure the nation during the Great Depression. It seems like Roy Stryker could have also shaped photography to and could have added a new type of photography. Before the depression, people might not have thought about taking pictures of the poor, but Roy thought it was an important subject that people should notice. Also, by having these pictures today, we can see what the poor in the Great Depression actually looked like and actually lived.
That's an interesting article. It definetly relates to what we are doing in class, taking pictures that have meaning and thought behind them. The photographer was probably one of the first people to really make a picture "worth a thousand words". -Andrea L.
It's a interesting article, but one thing that you're doing that alot of other people are doing to is to just paraphrase the article and show very little opinion. And the photos didn't define a generation really, they defined an era. But that's just me being nit picky. You could have also added one or two of the actual photos
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