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Visual Literacy: Analyzing photos

Visual Literacy: Analyzing photos. Background on Great Depression:. 1920’s: people took out loans to buy stocks Often speculated (i.e. bought stocks at high prices, hoping for an even better return) Oct. 29, 1929: stocks started falling People panicked and kept selling

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Visual Literacy: Analyzing photos

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  1. Visual Literacy:Analyzing photos

  2. Background on Great Depression: • 1920’s: people took out loans to buy stocks • Often speculated (i.e. bought stocks at high prices, hoping for an even better return) • Oct. 29, 1929: stocks started falling • People panicked and kept selling • Stocks lost most of their value • Banks started calling in loans people had taken out, but they had lost their investment money and couldn’t pay it back

  3. Dust Bowl: • Series of droughts caused massive erosion in Great Plains and Midwest • Topsoil literally blew away in early ‘30’s (years following stock market crash) • Farmland desiccated for years • Caused massive migration of farming families westward in search of work

  4. Examine the following photos, taken by Dorothea Lange as part of an effort to document Americans’ experience of the Great Depression. • With a partner, write a paragraph answering the following question: • What does this photo tell you about the subject’s experience? • Use the terms we have learned (repetition, leading lines, light source, composition/framing, etc.) • Draw inferences based on the photo • Your team paragraph will contain both evidence (specific details from the photo that support your analysis) and analysis (your interpretation / inferences)

  5. Your Assignment: • Take a photo that represents either • Your experience (life as it is right now for you, your family, and/or friends) OR • The experience of someone who is marginalized, whom society sees as powerless or voiceless • E-mail this photo to: • ruthfrindellm@edmonds.wednet.edu • Due (e-mailed by): Tues., Mar. 25

  6. Clarifications: • Purpose: • We will examine, in class, one photo from each student and discuss what each photo tells us • You may need to take more than 1 photo in order to get the best shot • The photo must be digital • If you don’t have a digital camera or smartphone, ask a friend to borrow one and use it to take your photo • Sign your name to the e-mail, but the photos will be shown to the class without names attached

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