I was assigned the photo "Migrant Mother" taken by Dorothea Lange at a pea farm just north of Los Angeles during the Great Depression. The photo was taken of Florence Owens Thompson, a mother of seven kids that she was struggling to provide for. Once this photo was released, many Americans eye's were opened by the fact that a mother and her children, working on a pea farm, were still starving. Now, when many people see this photo, the immediately think of the Great Depression. This photo can be classified as iconic because it symbolizes the Great Depression and the struggles of the typical American citizen during that time period.
I think that learning about these photos was beneficial because it made me more aware of my surroundings and showed such historic moments captured in history. One photo that caught my attention was a photo taken by Nick Napalm of a little girl who's clothes had been burned off from a southern vietnamese bomb. It can be classified as iconic because it shows how bad the war actually was and the controversy felt about the Vietnam War. The emotion of the little girls face also made the photo memorable. Another photo I found interesting was of John F. Kennedy's two brothers, wife, son, and daughter at his funeral. Stan Sterns took this photo that captured the immense amount of sadness felt throughout America over such an iconic person's death.
