Plantation Overseer - What do you see?

Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1936
Photographer: Dorothea Lange

I’ve provided you a famous photograph by Dorothea Lange as a starting point for a photographic analysis. I want you to write a blog entry that analyzes this photograph. There is no need to look for what other writers have written about this photograph – instead, I want you to do this without the aid of other writers, your classmates included.  When you've written your piece, learn a little about Dorothea Lange and the context in which she took this picture, but don't do that until you've posted your piece. If your learning changes your perspective, add it to your previous entry if you like, but don't change your previous entry.

An excellent resource that will help you with the vocabulary of photographic analysis is http://nuovo.com/southern-images/analyses.html, and this document provides several visual examples: http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/visual/diglitnews.pdf.

You should aim this entry to be in the 400-500 word length.  Please remember that your classmates and I will read your entries.