Essay Questions

Key Ideas:

Family: Looking at the theme occupation in terms of my family, exploring the history of my family as well as exploring the way we are now and how the past has influenced us. My main focus will be on my grandparents as they will have the most stories to tell, allowing a clear narrative to be created.

Lifestyle: Still on the ideology of capturing my grandparents, I want to see how the time period they grew up in 1940, has influenced the lifestyle they live through key themes of religion, family structure and gender stereotypes.

Liberation of Family History: The main focus will be trying to showcase my grandparents lives. I intend to capture their stories about their past, telling the narratives of their lives. This can be done through tableaux and staged imagery as well as capturing landscape and showcasing the incorporation of image and text.

Possible Questions:

How does Walker Evans and Alicja Rogalska showcase the lifestyle of their subjects within their imagery?

Explore the relationship between documentary and photography with reference to Walker Evans.

Explore how the photographers Sam Harris and Walker Evans capture the theme of lifestyle within their work.

To what extent does family photographer Sam Harris present the theme of lifestyle?

To what extent is the theme of lifestyle presented through documentary portraits, with reference too Sam Harris and Walker Evans?

To what extent does straight photography accurately portray events in time?

How is the theme of lifestyle presented within documentary photography, with reference too Sam Harris and Walker Evans?

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