Project 4, 4th Quarter "Letter to Sarah Part 2"


Letter to Sarah Part 2



In Part 1 of this assignment you watched a segment from Ken Burns' "The Civil War".

 Burns' technique of panning and scanning historic photographs brought a certain life to the still photographic images of the time. His narration and choice of soundtrack added their own qualities, the sum of which was a compelling rendition of an event that is beyond the memory of any living American.

 In the video embedded below, historic photographs are used again as a motif for describing a a bygone era that, while burned into the history of this nation, is rarely remembered.

 Please watch the video below and read the article that is linked to below that.  When finished with both, respond to the each of questions in a short paragraph.




https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/are-colorized-photos-rewriting-history-1579276696


1) How do you feel the colorized version of these old photographs affects your sense of the time and place in which they were taken?

2) Do you think the colorizing process is effective? Desirable? Why or why not?

3) Are there circumstances when photographs should never be colored? Explain.



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