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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Payton Down
3/1/2018 12:21:04 pm
This image is of a group of children looking at a playground. The kids are African American and are looking through a fence trying to look at something. There is a lot of green because of the plants and grass but the kids are wearing light pastel colors. Bright sunlight is being used as the light source. There are no faces included in the photo just the backs of the children's heads. The children are looking through the fence at the park maybe wanting to go in.
Brandon
3/1/2018 12:35:46 pm
The image is of six children staring at what looks like a small scale carnival, they are behind a fence. It is using bright colors my guess is to show what year there in looks like it could be in a time around 1950s. The sunlight looks like midday with a little cloudy, there are shadows but they are not dark. The objects in the image is clean cut grass, a seesaw, a telephone pole, weeds, a spinning play thing, a fence, a ferris wheel, six kids outside the fence, and some people inside the fence. The six kids are African American and if my guess was right about it being in the 50s then the people inside near the ferris wheel are white. The six kids are outside the fence staring at the white people having fun at the carnival.
Matthew Weiss
3/1/2018 12:39:41 pm
The image was made in 1956, by Gordon Parks. It was taken to capture and show the unfairness and truth behind racial segregation. In the image, six, young African American children are shown, looking past a fence, into a park that they can’t go to because of the segregation that exists. The lighting in the photo is very bright even harsh due to the sunlight.
Naty Orquin
3/1/2018 12:40:53 pm
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Lucas Prado
3/1/2018 08:15:36 pm
This image is of a group of black kids (maybe family) standing outside of a playground behind a fence. They are standing on ground mostly overgrown with weeds and plants, yet the playground lawn is neatly mown. The group consists of four girls and one little boy. Each girl is wearing a colored dress, and the little boy is wearing brown overalls. The playground consists of small Ferris wheel, a merry-go-round, and a couple of see-saws. Most prominently, the playground has a bunch of white families playing in the park.
Gilly Thompson
3/2/2018 09:18:09 am
This image was taken at a time when segregation was still around and was supposed to show through the images how segregation affected people and how it was not beneficial for really anyone. Through these images you can see the unjust things that people were choosing to do just because of the color of someone's skin. In this image you can’t see the childrens faces but you can assume that they are either sad about having to look at something from the outside or confused as to why they were treated differently.
Kylie Bruehler
3/2/2018 10:43:31 am
This an image done by Gordon Parks. With the first glance at this image, it is obvious what the message is being told by the image. This image appears to be older as if were taken in an earlier time. The quality of the image and the composition of the image reveals this. The children in the image also reveal the time in which this picture was taken. The children are all dressed as they might have been during this time. All of the children in the image are of the same race and during the time period that this image appears to have been taken in, people of this race were facing many difficulties, including segregation.
Claire Williams
3/3/2018 09:10:14 pm
This image is of 5 children standing with their backs to us looking through a fence. Behind the fence, they kids are looking at a kiddie park with a ferris wheel. There are many colors in this image because the children are each wearing brightly colored outfits, there is the green grass, and the blue sky. I think the brighter colors on the children’s clothes are there to show their colorful and bright spirits. The lighting is a little bit more exposed in the bottom half of the image than in the top half.
Parker Brown
3/6/2018 06:13:51 pm
The image is a picture of some girls looking through a fence. The girls in the photo are dark-skinned, and are not allowed to go past the fence. You can tell by the clothes that they are not in modern times. You can also see white people playing inside the fence on the rides. The image makes it seem like the girls want to be able to go inside.
elizabeth wray
3/7/2018 12:55:59 pm
This is an image of six african american children. It looks as if five are girls and one is a boy. They are looking through a fence at a ferris wheel. The girls are wearing colorful dresses and the little boy is wearing overalls. All of the children seem to be under the age of 13. Comments are closed.
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