Documentary photography

Question 1

documentary photography

Answer 1

Civil Right movement 1950s-late 1960s.
South maintained Jim Crow laws
1965 Voting Rights Act
late 1960s shifts into the Black Power movement.

Question 2

Joseph Postiglione, Firebombed Freedom Riders’ Bus Outsdie Anniston, Alabama

Answer 2

1961
buses were attacked
police often didn’t help
need to be alert to what is and isn’t photographable

Question 3

Martin Luther King

Answer 3

‘imprisoned in a luminous glare’

Question 4

Bruce Davidson, Woman arrested during demonstrations in B’ham, Alabama

Answer 4

1963
woman defiant
‘damn the defiant’ written above her head

Question 5

Charles Moore, B’ham Riots, Kelly Ingram Park

Answer 5

1963
images focus on women in a state of disarray
women often much more vulnerable - sexual politics of the times

Question 6

Photo Essay in Life Magazine

Answer 6

17th May 1963
role of captions in relation to photographs
photographs need interpretation

Question 7

Black Power Salute at Mexico City Olympic Games

Answer 7

16th October 1968
Tommy Smith and John Carlos
removed shoes and wore gloves