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Please revise the orange highlighted questions in the assignments below.
3/ 23/ 2011

The Role of the Observer
Part 2: Write a 4 sentence reflection based on the pink slip activity, addressing **"Who Else is Hidden in the Picture? The role of the observer when trying to determine historical truth by analyzing primary source documents".** Part 3: An Observer in Time The government has discovered a possible way for a person to actually go back in time to see for him/herself what actually occurred in history. They have to select the perfect candidate for this role. What would those qualifications be? You got a little confused by the activity we did where we looked at the shaved/bald head. For this part you need to make up a character who you think would be good to go back in time as an observer! Please try again (and feel free to ask me if you're still confused).
 * A: Different people will have different point of views about a same photograph. Sometimes is hard to know what truth is hiding in a photograph . The role of the observers is not just looking at the photograph without any considerations, instead of they should analyze primary source documents by many aspects. In this picture, there was not only one person ,it could be more person that standing in front of the one. **
 * Consider... || Describe ideal || Explain Why ||
 * Gender || I think he is a male //(redo this whole chart)// || because he is strong, and is a bold,usually female are not bolds. ||
 * Background || He is not Asian or African, he could be European, American. || because he has white skin. ||
 * Skills || He looks like a soccer player || because he is skinny, strong and tall ||
 * Interests || soccer, any kind of balls || because he made me felt like he is athletic ||
 * Personal qualities/character || He might be a police || because i usually most polices are bold. ||
 * Other considerations: || He is over forty || because he has many wrinkles in his neck ||

Dan Ping Wu 11TH GRADE

Photographs as evidence from the past: Do documentary photographs depict the truth?
March 22,2011

1. A Objective: neutral (bias free), relating to, or based on verifiable evidence or phenomenon instead of on attitude, belief, opinion. . B Subjective:Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states.

C Objective is something that really existed, like computer, chair, Subjective is our thoughts, it is a abstraction. D Autobiography can either be or objective or subjective, subjective is how you thought about the things stand out to you.

2.a.Photographed images could not express the whole world, but it can express part of it. b. My interpretation is that the photograph do not always tell the truth, because different people have different thoughts about something. They think in a different way.It can't tell, that is subjective.

3. A:Summarize: Sometimes a photograph is just used to remember a moment, occation or events. It is just an objective. And over couple years or longer. People will have so many different thoughts on it. it will be copied again and again. And Many different commons and opinions will come out. Sometimes it was not true,but who knows. In my point of view, this is where the rumor came from. B: More and more people are believed in the photograph. They think it holds the truth. Today. many books used in our text book to express the story.

4. 1) When did it happen? 2) Who took this photos? 3)Is that really what happened in the photo is true? 4) Do people agree with it?

5. “hidden narrative” within Jacob Riis’s photograph Bandit’s Roost is that usually people will think about the photograph in a same way, but it is a wrong way, and Riis argued that the alley, like the tenement, was a breeding ground for disorder and criminal behavior.

6. The truth is that in the Photograph, people seems are waiting for someone to come. A men who holds the wood stick might not want to arrest someone. It is just waiting for someone. Revise #6 above. Describe the “truth” that documentary photographs depict (//in general-- not just that one photograph!//):

3/16/2011

The Stories that Photographs Tell
1. A) -there are eight men totally -It located at a coner of street  -There are many clothing hang on the middle through a string  -Three people see through the window, it seems like there are going to have something big happen.  -A men holds a big wood stick  -They look like waiting for someone to come  -Streets are wet, I think it rained. The sky are dark. it is not a good environment. It creates a dim tone.  -People look very seriously  -I think a men over there is a guard or police is going to arrest someone.  B) " A Black Day" 2. A) From my point of view, I think there is a big fighting coming. Two serious men holds wood sticks seem waiting to arrest Someone, and the people see through the window, they want to watch a big fighting. B) " a fighting game"

3. The photo shows a very dark place, it creates an unhappy environment. Couple big men are over there angrily. I think he wanted us to see that it is an bandit's street. They are going to arrest many bandits.

4.Jacob Riis, the third of fifteen children, was born in Denmark on 3rd May, 1849. He worked as a carpenter in Copehengan before emigrating to the United States in 1870. Unable to find work, he was often forced to spend the night in police station lodging houses. He publicized the deplorable living conditions in the slums of New York's Lower East Side, photographing the rooms and hallways of tenements. he is considered a pioneer in photography. []

5. Quote"Riis argued that the alley, like the tenement, was a breeding ground for disorder and criminal behavior. " Summarize: Riis is a great photographer. He has his own thought, He usually uses his photo to express his story, for instance his own immigrant backround. His famous one "Bandit's Roost" briefly expressed his thought on the ally. He thought people should pay attention to those kind of places, usually most mean person will do some crimes in here.

6. Revise this one. (Also, Riis did take this photo; Gordon Parks was just the next person down on the webpage). Gordon Parks, the importance of asking the question" who took the photograph"? because riis didn't take these photograph. please write a "take-away" reflection regarding photographs and the importance of asking the question, "Who Took the Photograph?" Why is this important if we are historians trying to uncover the true story of the past?