Documentary Photography
Gordon Parks Life/Achievement
Dorothea Lange Life/Achievement
Gordon Parks Photos
Dorothea Lange Photos
100
This is the main purpose of documentary photography.
What is (anything along the lines of) documenting important events and spreading awareness?
100
This inspired Gordon Parks to become a photographer.
What are photos taken by the FSA?
100
Lange was diagnosed with this disease as a child.
What is polio?
100
This photo was named after a famous painting of a Midwestern farmer and his daughter.
What is "American Gothic"?
100
This iconic photo is Lange's most famed and is a symbol of the Great Depression.
What is "Migrant Mother"?
200
These THREE events/developments were key to documentary photographers of the twentieth century.
What is the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Gay Liberation Movement?
200
Parks was the first Black photographer to work for this major magazine.
What is Life Magazine.
200
These are some examples of social issues Lange focused her work on.
What is the Great Depression, poverty, and internment of Japanese Americans?
200
The experiment captured in Doll Test found that Black children preferred _______ as opposed to _______.
What is a white doll [opposed to] an identical Black doll?
200
This is the historical context of the photo of the girl on the fence.
What is the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression?
300
This brand created the first handheld camera in 1888.
What is Kodak?
300
Parks left home at a young age due to this.
What is his mother's death?
300
Lange was hired by this organization.
What is the FSA or the WRA?
300
This is the city where Parks discovered his interest in documenting experiences of low income Black families.
What is Chicago?
300
This caused heavy Japanese internment during WWII.
What is fear following the attack on Pearl Harbor?
400
Name a prominent 20th century documentary photographer excluding Lange and Parks.
Who is Robert Capa OR Henri Cartier-Bresson?
400
Gordon Parks documented this African American fighter group during WWII.
What is the 32nd Fighter Group?
400
Lange traveled here after her parents divorce.
What is San-Francisco?
400
This gang leader was featured in his project "The Making of an Argument".
Who is Red Jackson?
400
Lange's photo of Japanese children in an internment camp during WWII is titled after a famous line from this commonly recited poem.
What is The Pledge of Allegiance?