Politics Through Photography by karuru koushik https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw en-us 2024-10-10 19:15:52 UTC 2024-10-10 21:54:15 UTC hello@padlet.com Hi my name is Kaushik Karuru. Today I will be talking about politics that are seen through photography. Photos and videos are some of the best ways to convey a message to people around the world. Photos can start a movement. They can reveal a true meaning behind what my eyes or your eyes can see. karurukoushik254 https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163670561 2024-10-10 19:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163670561 What can be seen about politics in photography? karurukoushik254 https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163711048 Photography as an art is an excellent way to show powerful messages and emotions about a certain event. It can show us the viewers of a certain photo the inequality, injustice and many other things. With seeing this it can start a reaction from us and eventually lead to some sort of action being taken. We all saw this in the famous Waiting for the Bust at the Memphis Terminal by Esther Bubley. In this photo we may see a regular photo that is taken on a bus terminal in Memphis in 1943 on a regular day. But when we deeply ponder and see the true meaning behind this image we see that there is racial segregation taking place. Bubley's work often showed racism through out the country.

]]> 2024-10-10 20:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163711048 American Gothic by Gordon Parks karurukoushik254 https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163736867 American Gothic is a photo taken by Gordon Parks in 1942. The women seen in this photo is Ella Watson, who is a government worker. This photo shows the racial life of African Americans in Washington D.C. It shows the racial inequality and the struggles of African Americans. This photo was taken during the Jim Crow era part of the history where racial segregation and discrimination were enforced in the southern states of the U.S. This photo was taken to point out the civil rights and oppression that the African Americans faced.

]]> 2024-10-10 20:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163736867 Robert Franks' Charleston, South Carolina karurukoushik254 https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163752531 Robert Frank is a journalistic photographer born in Switzerland. He moved to United States in 1947. This photo shows us a African American woman holding a white baby. It shows the racial inequality. It shows us the true meaning of what black women were doing in the segregated south. This photo is part of The Americans a photobook by Robert Frank that showed people the racism, inequality though out Americans. His photos do not show this right away however, the viewers having to think and see the true meaning of his photos.

]]> 2024-10-10 20:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163752531 Sanitation Workers by Ernest Withers karurukoushik254 https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163764375 This image of sanitation workers on strike is photographed by Ernest Withers. It shows sanitation workers going on a strike and can be seen holding a power signs that say " I AM A MAN". This photo was taken during the Civil Rights Movement. The workers in this photo are protesting against the poor working conditions, low pay, and them not being treated as human beings. Withers' photo also captures inequality and racism and the fight for it. These workers are going on a strike in Memphis, Tennessee on March 28, 1968. This strike also led to Martin Luther King Jr. coming to Memphis to support these workers. He delivered his famous speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop", the day before his assassination in 1968. The reason this strike began was because of the deaths of black sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker who were killed by a failing garbage truck and the city did nothing in return for these workers and hence the strike of these workers began.

]]> 2024-10-10 21:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163764375 Baltimore Protests by Devin Allen karurukoushik254 https://padlet.com/karurukoushik254/p7kh0pz72tgkpwjw/wish/3163782331 This photo is taken in April of 2015 during the Baltimore protests following the death of Freddie Gray. Freddie Gray was a black man who died in police custody. This photo shows a protestor who is being pursued by military in the back with riot gear. This photo really captures the African American communities in Baltimore fighting for their civil rights against the police brutality. David Allen the photographers work was the cover photo of the TIME magazine in 2015, which helped his career and also showing the true visuals of what is going on during these protests in Baltimore. This photo is one of the biggest images during the Black Lives Matter movement in 2015, which is a movement to fight against the police violence and racism. This photo not only captures just the riots but also shows that racism and police brutality is still part of today's world however it shows people are ready to fight back against the injustice that is done to the African American community even today.

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https://americanart.si.edu/education/oh-freedom/ernest-c-withers-sanitation-workers


https://time.com/3841077/baltimore-protests-riot-freddie-gray-devin-allen/

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