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How to Analyze a Photograph Photographs are another important source for historians. One way to study a photograph is to write down everything you think is important about it. Then divide the image into four sections and describe the important elements from each section. As you study photographs in this textbook,
ask questions like the ones below.
• What is the subject of the photograph?
• What does the image reveal about its subject?
• What is the setting for the photograph?
• What other details can I observe?
• When and where in the past was the photograph created?
• How can I describe the photographer’s point of view? 
Consider this photograph. If you divided the photograph into four sections and wrote down everything you thought was important, you might jot down items like this:
• There are many items on a table. There are scissors, needle nose pliers, forks, a corkscrew, and many others. What they have in common is they are sharp or they have a cutting surface.
• A person that appears to be a security gaurd is standing in the background.
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