Mahin Monsoor October 28, 2014
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Margaret Bourke was born on June 14, 1904 and lived until August 27, 1979. She was an American photographer who took photos of combat zones during World War II. She is the first female to take combat. She had grown up in Bound Book, New Jersey. In 1922, she studied herpetology at Columbia University. She had developed her interest in Photography when she went to Clarence White. In 1929, she had accepted a job as associate editor for “Fortune Magazine”. Then on 1929, she became the first western photographer allowed in to the Soviet Union. She was hired by Henry Luce as the first female photojournalist for “Life” magazine. Her photographs about the Fort Peck dam being constructed were later featured in the first issue. The issue was dated November 23, 1936 including the cover. The cover of the issues was an icon image because it was featured as the 1930’s representative to the United States Postal Service. During the mid 1930s, she had photographed drought victims of the Dust Bowl. She later married novelist Erskine Caldwell and together they had collaborated on You Have Seen Their Faces (1937). She was later diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and later died in Connecticut at the age of 65.
This photograph shows how people of a Louisville are waiting in line for something after a huge flood. The mood trying to be conveyed is tough and gloomy because they are waiting line after a huge devastating flood. I think of the color of the picture being in black and white helps the emphasis of a dark and gloomy mood. I think the meaning the photographer is trying to convey is that how hard it was back in the day with a flood and storm compared to modern days where we can be warned if a storm is approaching a city or state. The facts that the people in the picture are waiting for what it looks like bread shows how hard life was.
This picture contains two children who are Nazis. The picture is titled saying the Nazis Training Class. The emphasis of the children’s expressions really helps to understand how hard and strict the training class was. When a child sees someone taking a picture, they tend to smile but these kids look more serious for their age. I think the photographer is trying to create a serious mood because of how serious the kids look. Also the way they are dressed in this picture, contributes to the facts how serious the training classes were. If you see the shirts are buttoned up to the top and the shirt is tucked in with a belt.
The picture here is the Hohenzollern Bridge that has been completely destroyed during World War II. The mood that is being conveyed is a feeling of devastation like if something had died. The meaning this picture conveys is that a small argument can lead to war that can end up destroying the biggest thing. The emphasis of the picture taken outward shows how big the destruction was rather than taking it up close which would have been difficult to understand how bad the destruction of this bridge was.
Lewis Wickes Hine was an American photographer who took photos during World War I. He believed that the camera was both a research tool and an instrument of social reform. He was born on September 16, 1984 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He studied sociology at the University of Chicago, Columbia and New York.
Lewis began his career in 1904, by taking photos of immigrants arriving to the U.S at Ellis
