Today you will be writing about this image made by artist and photojournalist Gordon Parks. This image is from a series Parks completed for Life Magazine. Life sent Parks to Alabama in 1956 to document 3 black families during one of the most turbulent times in American history. The project was meant to show how ordinary black families truly lived in the Deep South during 1956, and the images would serve to counter the misinformation spread that a racially segregated society was good for everyone.
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Melody Umsted
3/1/2018 09:31:12 am
This picture is of an older woman and a little girl. They are African American and are looking through a store window. They are looking at the mannequins, who are all white. There are mannequins for both children and adult’s clothes. You can see reflections through the windows of the display cases.
Dylan Pegg
3/1/2018 09:31:29 am
The picture shows a picture of a black women and a child, presumably her daughter. They are looking in a glass box, which features mannequins of white children. In the background are mannequins of white women, and near the left side you can see a street. This photo likely takes place in a clothing store, since many of the mannequins have price tags on their clothes. The clothes are all different colors, but the palette is still relatively unsaturated. 3/1/2018 09:42:35 am
This image is of an African American mother and daughter looking into the window of a fancy clothing store. The image uses cool and depressing colors, like gray, to give the image a gloomy feel, because the image is trying to portray that. The lighting in the image is very neutral and natural, and not too bright or too dull. The objects in the image include a girl, a woman, mannequins, glass, a telephone pole, various articles of clothing, glass, and a sidewalk. In the image, the little girl appears to have walking with her mother and has stumbled across a fancy clothing store, and is dreamfully looking into its display case.
Catherine Clausewitz
3/1/2018 09:44:49 am
This image is of a little girl and her mom looking at mannequins through a window. The main focus of this image is a little girl looking through the glass into a department store display for children’s clothing. She is looking at one o the mannequins to her left and has her finger pressed against the glass. She is african american and has dark curly hair. She has on a blush pink dress that comes a little bit above her knee and her hair is put in braids. She has a very amazed look on her face that look like something caught her eye in the window. 3/1/2018 09:45:43 am
This image is about a kid with her mom looking almost like a zoo into how white kids look. You can tell that the kid has never seen a white person by her facial expression. The white people mannequins are inside a display case with many more around the display case. This image uses a lot of white black and green and dark shades of colors. They use these dark colors test the gloomy mood for the scene. There is natural light coming in and it is bright on the right side of the photo and it gets darker as you move to the left. There are lot of faces including human faces and mannequin faces. There is a building which is the setting for the scene.
Chase Blackwell
3/1/2018 09:45:58 am
The photo depicts a black woman and her little girl shopping for clothing in the 1950’s. It is taken from the other side of the display to capture the look on the girls face as she stares at the clothes on the mannequins. The mother stares down at her child with a sad face and is holding her back from the window. All of the the mannequins are are white children and women.
Kaitlyn Evans
3/1/2018 09:47:06 am
This image is of a young girl looking into a store filled with dolls. This image was taken by Gordon Parks. The colors in this image are dark, dark green, dark reds, etc. The lighting in this image is coming from outside. In this image there is a young girl with her mom looking at the different dolls in the window of the store.
Julieta Vazquez Martinez
3/1/2018 09:48:14 am
This is a squared image by Gordon Parks during 1956. The image is about a black woman with who seems to be her daughter looking at a display case of a store. Gordon used daylight for it coming from the right side of the image, they are outside. There are a lot of green outfits, red outfits, and green with red outfits being displayed at the store. The little girls who seems to be around four or five years-old is looking at a dress while the lady is probably trying to pull her out of the store.
Adriana Vazquez
3/1/2018 09:49:39 am
The image is of a little girl and her mom looking at some manikins at a clothing store. The colors being used are very light and not colorful. I think they are using this colors to show the feeling that the girl is having when she sees the dresses that she is not able to have. The lighting being used is natural light that is coming from the side of the picture. The left side of the image is very bright and it starts to get darker when it goes to the other side. I think what is happening in the image is that the little girl is looking at all of the beautiful dresses that are in the store and wanting to wear them. Comments are closed.
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