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From the website: The images in the “ Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection” are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II. The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs.
This is a well-designed essay on the different posters and flyers that appear in different kinds of neighborhoods in one city.
The BBC publishes photo journals (click the “In Pictures” link on the left of the page linked above) on events around the world. The “Tales of Rape in the Congo” journal focuses on two young women in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa, and with a few captioned photographs attempts to give readers a sense of the situation for young women in the Congo.
How much emotion does the site try to evoke? What actions do you think the site hopes its viewers will take after reading?
Hundreds of photographs of people living in Shanghai, China, accompanied by descriptions of their lives from the people photographed.
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