Summary Of I Have A Dream By Warren K. Leffler

The event on fighting for equality, fighting against discrimination and had the renowned speech, “I Have A Dream” was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (or the March on Washington) that happened on August 28, 1963. Within this event, multiple images were taken. The three images that are analyzed in this paper are by Warren K. Leffler and the History.com website. Leffler is an American photographer who worked for the U.S. News & World Report in Washington, D.C. The website, History.com (History) is a U.S. TV network that launched on January 1, 1995 with its headquarters in New York City, New York. Within the images, the composition, color, and people are analyzed. In the images, the composition for each are different. The first image by History is the protestors by the pool (Figure 1). The composition of the image creates a sense of balance. The right side of the image is heavier, or dense with dark colors, whereas the left side is light with the contrasting color of the pool, sky and monument. There is directionality, moving from the right to the back of the image, with the trees and people as they get

In the next image, also by History, is an aerial view of the people present for the March on Washington (Figure 2). Just like figure 1, figure 2 has directionality. The direction starts with the crowd on the bottom going back to the horizon where the monument is located. The third image by Leffler (Figure 3) has the Washington monument slightly off-centered on the photograph. The