SPECIAL PHOTO ESSAY
The Face of Montana: Portraits of People under the Big Sky
By Laurel Wall-MacLane and Nate Hegyi, Guest Writer, 11-16-06
"[W]e know that people are formed by the light and air, by their inherited traits, and their actions. We can tell from appearance the work someone does or does not do; we can read in his face whether he is happy or troubled."
− August Sander
In the world of journalism we are always looking for a story, something interesting and action-packed or dense and emotionally gripping. We start discarding the ordinary as too mundane, and search to understand extraordinary events or people. But we all have a story, each filled with beauty and hurt, birthdays and funerals.
August Sanders, a mid-nineteenth century German photographer who photographed people from all walks of life, helped Teresa Tamura’s beginning photojournalism class understand how to capture a person’s story in a single image.
In this series of portraits of people in Montana, students found artists, cowboys, hairdressers, and neighbors that live in this state of wide open spaces, and snapped a single picture of their lives.
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