Taryn Simon, TED Talks

http://www.ted.com/talks/taryn_simon_the_stories_behind_the_bloodlines

Photography Homework

Image #1
Breadline During Louisville Flood, 1937, Margaret Bourke-White

Image #2
The First Murder (detail), 1941,Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

Image #3
Saigon Execution, 1968, Eddie Adams

Homework, Photography

'The Atlantic" Remembers Its Civil War Stories by Michele Norris.
Link here to read (or listen).  Source is National Public Radio.
HW - Vocab, Summary/Outline, Personal Response (includes connections to course content).

The Spirit Photographs of William Hope
Link here to read and view a collection of images. Source is The Public Domain Review.
HW - Vocab, Summary/Outline, Personal Response (includes connections to course content).

Catching the Shadow of  A Lost World by Petra Mayer
Link here to listen to the story and view a slide show.  Source is National Public Radio.
HW- Vocab, Summary/Outline, Personal Response (includes connections to course content).
For those of you who seek more information and imagery on the photographer Edward S. Curtis, go to the Smithsonian Libraries.  Link here.

In your textbook (Kromm and Bakewell), Chapter 18, Marketing The Slave Trade: Slavery, Photography, and Emancipation: Time and Freedom in The Life of the Picture. pp. 255 - 260.
HW - Vocab, Summary/Outline, Personal Response (includes connections to course content).
Image source link here and here. 

Photography

Birmingham, Alabama, May 1963, Charles Moore

"This essay explores the dialogic relationship between art and the law, and argues that an examination of Andy Warhol's Electric Chair paintings, and our collective response to the paintings, broadens the legal discourse on capital punishment in this country. The essay contends that the paintings, and their iconic status in our culture, call attention to our fascination with death in general, to state-administered death in particular, to the spectacle of capital punishment, and to our history of obtaining pleasure by gazing upon death. It also argues that Warhol poses an important question, one that implicates race and gender and religion and disability and age and comfort: Who are we comfortable visualizing in the chair?" On Andy Warhol's Electric Chair, I. Bennett Capers, 2005

An Iconic Image.

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

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Elvis Presley, 1957, promoting Jailhouse Rock.

Migrant Mother, 1936