Ideas for Using “Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker And The FSA/OWI
Photographers” In The Classroom
written by
Frank W. Baker, media
education consultant,
© 2008
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Locating FSA Photographs |
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Possible student assignment Assign students, or teams of students, to research the backgrounds of one of the FSA/OWI photographers and one or more of their images: (John Collier, Louise Rosskam, Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, Carl Mydans, Ben Shahn, and Jack Delano) Each team should create a multimedia production about the photographer and his/her work for the US government (Background on each can be found here; see also additional resources listed below). Other students might explore "photography as propaganda." Other lesson plans Comparing FSA Photographs by Ben Shahn: A Lesson in Media Literacy (Middle Level Learning, NCSS, May/June 209) The Power of Stills: "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" (from American Photography: A Century of Images) Images of The Depression Era/Documentary Photography and the Photographic Essay Images of Children In Dorothea Lange's Photographs Analyzing Photographs: From Theory to Practice Worth A Thousand Words: Depression Era Photographs |