Chapter 8: Documentary Photography

Taken in the twentieth century, photographs taken for the soul purpose of "remembering" what happened during these times. Some may say that this is the most intimate form of photography. There is a great bond between the on-looker or reader of the photograph and what the photograph is saying, or showing. These may be scenes from disasters or wars, people helping or a political campaign. I like the photograph called Sharecropper's Home because it shows us how the sharecroppers lived.The news papers on the walls as their wall paper. It is very similar to Interior of a Black Farmers House that was taken around the same time. The older furniture and the clippings on the walls from newspapers, show us how they lived and what they went through. The photo of the migrant mother crys out, "Sympathy" to the reader as if to say, "Feel sorry for me" the photograph speaks so loud that anyone who looks at it would feel this way. These people are dressed in what they have and are about to begin a new life away from eveything they know.