Pick one of the Gordon Parks photos we’ve seen so far (don’t look ahead) and try to describe it, write about it, analyze it, in your portfolio. What makes it evocative? effective?
Effective at what?
Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-Shopping, Mobile, Alabama
1956
– The two stand out in the crowd of (only) white mannequins,
– Barrier (Window), symbolic of segregation
– Grandmother looking away, hands on the daughter as if to lead her away from the display. Whereas Ondria Tanner seems very keen on them. Trying to stop daughter form looking up to whites. Or protecting her. Mannequins are like models, as if to set standards of society
– Heavy shadows,
-Title is window shopping, not shopping perhaps commenting on poverty
– Different levels, white mannequins are on a higher level
in this photograph “Ondria tanner and her grandmother window-shopping”, Gordon Parks portrays the unnoticed side of segregation.
