Gret Zimmer Biography

Taking photographs may seem simple, but being a photographer is more than browsing through the viewfinder and pushing the exposure button. A photographer needs to know how to analyze the scene, speak in words that language cannot, and reach to the souls of people through a picture. During the Great Depression, many photographers captured the scenes of poverty and grief. However, there was only one photographer that truly captured the souls of Americans. According to Roy Stryker, Dorothea Lange "had the most sensitivity and the most rapport with people" (Stryker and Wood 41). Dorothea Lange was a phenomenal photographer that seized the hearts of people during the 1930s and beyond, and greatly affected the times of the Great Depression.

Rockwell’s ‘Rosie’, which appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in the 29th of May, 1943, was inspired by a real woman by the name of Mary Doyle. It shows a muscular feminine figure in front of an American flag, on her lunch break, sitting on a stump, riveter gun on her lap, factory goggles pushed up on her forehead and wearing dirty overalls. She looks confident, strong and comfortable in this environment, doing this job freely and willingly to support the US war effort. The illustration resembles a Michelangelo’s painting from

One of the most famous photographs in history was taken by Joe Rosenthal at the Battle of Iwo Jima, during the Second World War. The American people on a whole embraced this photo and saw it as a firm success for the army, so the government knowing that the war needed lots of added funds decided to cease this opportunity and sent the survivors of the flag razing on a propaganda based bond drive for the army. Clint Eastwood in the way he directed the film showed just how different an image of war is compared to a real war. Clint Eastwood allowed the viewer to get an insight to all three survivors of the photo and this gave an insight to how the war on Iwo Jima and the image that gave them a entirely different course in the war. The

After initially being held back by censors, a photo of three American corpses lying on the beach after a landing in the Pacific appeared in Life magazine.” (Photography and War. (n.d.)). For the first time in history, these colored photos provided the American people with what experiences in the war are really like.

Originally published in 1975, Nora Ephron’s essay “The Boston Photographs” is both still relevant and controversial almost forty years later. It deals with the series of three photographs that were published in newspapers across the country. The most important one shows a mother and child falling off a collapsed fire escape. Both have their limbs outstretched. If both had survived, maybe the reaction would have been different. The child survived by landing miraculously on the mother, but the mother ended up dying. The question on everyone’s mind was why the photographer, Stanley Forman, decided to take the photographs instead of trying to help the falling

Alfred Eisenstaedt was the photographer present who captured the famous Life magazine photo that was used to demonstrate the celebration of that day. The famous photograph consisted of an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress in Times Square. There were many mysteries on who were the people pictured, many men had claimed to be the sailor but only the nurse’s identity was confirmed. For the longest time, people had thought that Edith Shain was the woman in the picture, but she was the only one who came forward about it, later one two other women contacted Life magazine and claimed to be the nurse. The two women were Greta Friedman and Barbara Sokol, it was then later determined that Greta Friedman was the woman because the other two had an insufficient height of just under five feet and it was not comparable with the height of any of the men claiming to be the

At 24 years old, being hired by LIFE magazine, Marie Hansen was an aspiring photojournalist. Being assigned to photograph the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in Kansas. Famous for the amazing photograph of the women in gas masks. After photographing on the WAAC, she wants to Hollywood for a short time, being stationed in Washington D.C. assigned to the White House most of World War II. Vernal Dwight D. Eisenhower chose Hansen portraits she photographed of him as his “official” photograph. Leaving LIFE in 1946, she married a writer David Wesley and toured the

Simone Simon could never forget the day the tall, burly Baltimore county policeman, named Jim Barclay, pounded on the family's front door in Sparks, Maryland. It was Saturday, October 13th, 2000. The interruption came without warning, propelling the household into a state of perpetual turmoil. The time was exactly nine-thirty a.m. Simone knew this because while the knock commanded her attention, she still managed to shift her eyes from the mahogany entry door to the chrome-plated clock hanging on the dining room wall. She still remembered vividly how the knock made her jump as it vibrated through her chest. It reminded Simone of the blast heard from the WW1 cannon during the reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg she attended in elementary

Before starting this project, I knew very little about photography, photographers, or exactly how much impact photographical images have had on our society. I have never taken a photography class, or researched too in depth about specific pictures or photographers. This project has allowed me to delve deeper into the world of photography in order to understand just how much influence pictures can have over society’s beliefs, emotions, and understandings’. I have have chosen two highly influential photographers, Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange, who I have found to both resonate with me and perfectly capture human emotions in way that moves others.

On March 25th, 2017, I interviewed Charlotte “Putse” McCarroll who was born on June 3rd, 1935 in Cyrus, Minnesota. I asked her about her life and experiences during WWII. She doesn’t recall much about the actual War. She was a 4-year-old child during the start of the War and was in grade school when the War ended. She didn’t have any family members that she remembers actually being in the War. Putse told me that while the war was occurring she just stayed at home or went to school. She kind of remembers gathering around with her family and just praying for it to end. She said that life was very different because everyone was scared and no one knew what was going to happen. She thought to herself that anything could

People cannot choose the time to live and die. Ginzburg had to live through the horrors of war: destroyed houses, air raids, arrests, and death. She shows how the war not only deprives people of their belongings, but also distorts the

In the second movement, the girl stands up and walks away from her companion to end of the station so that she effectively distances herself from the influence of her male companion and enables herself, evidently for the first time, to realize what is in her own mind. According to Renner “Thus, figuratively speaking, the girl’s movement to a point where she can look out to the other side of the station shows the freeing of her mind from the control of the American and her development toward discovering her own feeling, represented figuratively by the other side of the valley she now sees for the first time” (32). Throughout the third movement, the girl appeals her mind for the first time. “She is again physically on his side of the station and the decision, but her mind remains on her side, to which she tries to persuade him by implying that her pregnancy could mean something to him and allaying his fear that they would not be able to “get along” with the added burden of a child.” (Renner 33). In the final movement, there is turning point where Stanley Renner offers a key sentence in the story when the woman serving drinks informs the couple of the imminent arrival of the train, the man picks up the bags to carry them to “the other side of the station.” appending great significance to the word “other,” Renner argues: “What the girl’s outbursts have made clear is just how strong her resistance

Thesis: In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Soldier’s Home”, Hemingway uses a simple writing style and a scenic image style to portray the damaging effects World War I has on soldiers.

The Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, and the Great Pyramids; these are some of the most recognizable cultural icons in the world today. A cultural icon can be a symbol, logo, picture, name, face, person, building or other image that is readily recognized and generally represents an object or concept with great cultural significance to a wide cultural group (Wikipedia). Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are examples of individuals who are important cultural icons to many Americans. Another person who is considered a cultural icon is Nelson Mandela; an individual who took a stand against apartheid in South Africa and established great strides toward racial equality in that part of the world. Mandela is considered as cultural icon

Set against the backdrop of World War II and its aftermath, the episode examines how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima, and the questions their often extraordinary pictures raise about history as seen