Reading a Photograph

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Reading a Photograph

• American Memory FSA
• http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query

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What is happening in the picture?

• Where was photo taken?
• How are people dressed?
• Are the people related?
• What objects can you
• Identify?

3
Looking at Objects Material Culture

• What objects can you
• Identify?
• What time period do the
• objects belong to?
• How did this period differ
• from the present?

4
The Environment - Cityscapes

• Where was this photo taken?
• How do you know?
• What do buildings tell us
• about the environment?
• Why did photographer shoot
• this picture?

5
Environment Rural

• What was photographer trying to tell us?

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Point of View

• Did the photographer arrange
• the picture?
• What is happening outside
• the frame?
• How was photographer
• positioned to take the photo?