Social Protest / Affirmation
Fighting for the Oppressed
Part 2
Photojournalism
Photojournalists has been instrumental in documenting oppressive
situations around the world to make aware of the fight for social change.
Jacob Riis
Dorothea Lange
Margaret Bourke-White
Charles Moore
Lewis Hine
David Parker
Alfredo Jaar
Bandits Roost 59 ½ Mulberry Street
New York City
1888
Jacob Riis photographed the living conditions of the
low-class people in New York City in the 1880s and 1890s.
He donated the photographs to the
Museum of the City of New York.
Five cents a Spot
New York City
1890
Burying the Dead
Hart’s Island, Bronx, New York
1890
Jacob Riis
A class in condemned Essex School
New York City 1902
Dorothea Lange was hired by the
Farm Security Administration (FSA)
to document the living conditions during
the Depression-era of the 1930s.
White Angel Breadline,
San Francisco 1933
Living Conditions,
Lindsey, California 1939
Heading West, Tulare Lake, California
1939
Dorothea Lange
photojournalist
Lettuce Cutters, Salinas, California 1935
Hoe Culture, Alabama 1937
Dorothea Lange was hired again in the early 1940s
by the War Relocation Authority
to record the forced evacuation of
Japanese-American to internment camps.
Executive Order 9066
San Francisco, California
Few Weeks before Executive Order 9066,
1942
San Francisco, California
1942
Dorothea Lange
Manzanar
Relocation
Center
Manzanar,
California
1942
Executive Order 9066,
Centerville, California 1942
Wearing ID Tags,
Hayward, California
1942
During the 1930s, Bourke-White photographed drought victims of the Dust Bowl.
Margaret Bourke-White
At the Time of the Louisville Flood
1937
Margaret Bourke-White was the first female war correspondent and the first woman allowed in combat zones
during WWII. She traveled to the Soviet Union, North Africa, Italy and the concentration camp at Buchenwald.
Margaret Bourke-White
The Living Dead of Buchenwald, 1945
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Shanghai 1948
Punjab, India
1947
Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
Marion, Indiana 1930
Various photographers documented the
gruesome and inhumane treatment of
African-Americans by American whites.
Lynching in Omaha, Nebraska
1919
Segregated Bus
1930
Joseph Postigilione
The Aftermath of a Mob Attack on a
Freedom Ride Bus, Anniston, AL
1960s
Birmingham, Alabama
Charles Moore documented the
civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.
His images helped to spur the passage
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Water Cannon
1963
1963
Lewis Hine recorded children working in
factories and in other types of laborious work.
His images helped to pass the
Child Labor Laws of the 1930s
Boys working in a Milk Factory
“Just Happened In” Newberry, SC.
The overseer said apologetically, "She just happened in."
She was working steadily. The mills seem full of
youngsters who "just happened in" or "are helping sister."
A group of newsies selling on the Capitol steps.
Tony, age 8, Dan, 9, Joseph, 10, and John, age 11.
Lewis Hine
photojournalist
Breaker boys.
Smallest is Angelo Ross.
Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Children picking cotton
Leather tannery worker
Injured fireworks worker
Guatemala
Bangladesh
1993
1999
Sex workers in front
of a brothel
Thailand
David Parker wrote
Before Their Time: The World of Child Labor,
which documented the exploitation of children
in the late 20th Century, which still occurs.
1993
Forming bricks
Peru
1998
David Parker
Looking for conch shells in a
mangrove swamp
Nicaragua 2004
Hauling bricks for firing
Nepal 1995
Each brick weighs 4-9 lbs
Hauling 1000-2000 bricks per day
Alfredo Jaar
Gold in the Morning series
1985
Alfredo Jaar
Gold in the Morning
1985
Alfredo Jaar
The Rwanda Project
1994-2000
The Silence of Nduwayezu
Alfredo Jaar
The Geometry of Conscience Memorial
2010
Museum of Memory and Human Rights
Lights dim every 90 seconds in memory of
the victims of Pinochet’s 17 year dictatorship.