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Photography. Photography as Witness. MoMA Photography Theme. Questions. Why is photography used to document historic events?. MoMA Photography Theme. Describe the scene in this photograph. What is being depicted?. Alexander Gardner.
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Photography as Witness MoMA Photography Theme
Questions Why is photography used to document historic events? MoMA Photography Theme
Describe the scene in this photograph. What is being depicted? Alexander Gardner Alexander Gardner. Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg from Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War (1865). July 1863. MoMA Photography Theme
Describe the scene in this photograph. What is being depicted? Jacob Riis. Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot. 1889. MoMA Photography Theme
What does this photograph communicate about its subjects? Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. 1936 MoMA Photography Theme
What do you think is going on in this photograph? Gilles Peress. Untitled (boy with hand to head). 1994. MoMA Photography Theme
How are these images similar? How are they different? Gilles Peress. Untitled (Boy with Hand to Head). 1994. Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. 1936. MoMA Photography Theme