Coles Essay

In comparing myself to Robert Coles as a documentary writer, I have found several similarities as well as some differences. I used some of the same techniques that he and the other documentarians used in their essays. I have also found that some of the techniques that I did not use of Robert Coles, Dorothea Lange, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Taylor; are some that I wish I would have. Dorothea Lange, a photographer, has …

…history of the 1930's into her discussion of these photographs. She simply wove it into her writings. I did not incorporate very much history of the Depression into my paper, although now, I wish that I would have. I wrote about how times were tough, and that some families had to go on relief, but besides describing my grandmother's day-to-day life, I don't think a reader could really understand how bad the Depression really was.