3º leticia & inés at school

A big story in a small photography

Robert Doisneau

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Table of contents 1. Biography of the photographer: ................................................... Page 3 2. Observation skills: ……………………………………………………. Page 4 1.

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Action: Setting: Theme: Characters: Clothing: Pose: Expression:

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Point of view: Lightning: Framing: Cropping: Understanding the context and intended use of the photograph: Finding meaning: Symbol/Metaphor:

4. Bibliography: …………………………………………………………….. Page 6

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Robert Doisneau: He is a french photographer that was born in Gentilly near Paris on 14 april 1912. He worked in the department of publicity of “Renault�. Before, he started to work as an independent photographer. In the post-war period, he collected photos of special moments. He made 7 movies and wrote more than 50 books. He died in Paris on 1 april 1994.

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Interpret and Analyze Images Building observation skills The photo was taken in a clasroom. In 20th century.

In the picture we can see a classroom where there are some children.They are sitting at their desks.

Two boys are the subject in this picture. One child is cheating one of his schoolmates while the other is thinking.

In the background there are other children, many desks, a big window, a coat stand where there are many bags or coats and a big radiator behind the window.

In the foreground there is a photographer taking the image.

The teacher ordered them to do an exam and one boy hadn’t studied so he decided to cheat his schoolmate.

When the teacher realized the boy got a zero.

When the teacher asked the students to do the exam one boy, who hadn’t studied, decided to cheat one of his schoolmates.

There are one child cheating and the other children are thinking or doing the exam.

The children are 7 or 8 years old.They are from a poor small village. They are from 20th century because their clothes are typical from this period.

They are poor because the clothes aren’t expensive.

The children are sitting in their desks.

Some children are lost, others thinking and others are concentrated doing the exam.

One of the subjects, the blond boy, is looking at the ceiling pensive; and the other boy is peeping at his schoolmate’s exam.

Building technical knowledge Point of view The photographer is standing, he is in the corner of the desk.The lighting in this picture is artificial, the light is coming from the lamps of the class and the flash. The photo is dark, diffuse, blurry. The light draws our attention to the blond boy.

In the framing wo the teacher and the teacher’s table aren’t included.

The photographer only included (in the framing) the boys and their tables.

When the photographer took the photo,he cropped it because he wanted us to see just the two boys.

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Letty:The children are doing the activities. The dark-haired boy is cheating his schoolmate because he didn’t do them, the teacher saw him and and punished him.

Inés: In my opinion I think that before the photograph was taken the teacher arrived at the classroom and they started to do the exam. One child hadn’t studied and as he didn’t want to fail, he decided to cheat his schoolmate. But the other boy was thinking and didn’t realize. When the teacher discovered the boy, he took the exam from him and gave the boy a zero.

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Bibliographical reference:

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