100 word photography

English 250A

Instructor: Brenna Dixon

Yinfei Liu

May 18th 2010

100 word photography

The black and white picture “Buffalo skulls at Michigan Carbon Works” portrayed a miserable and appalling scene of skulls of buffalo, which is in sharp contrast with the people who posed complacently. In the center of the picture, the tremendous amount of buffalo skulls piled up a hill with a height of more than 6 adults. The hill of skulls stretched away into the distance. On the top of it, a worker who carried a skull was looking at somewhere. Another worker facing the camera stood on the ground in front of thousands of skulls. He put his right hand on those skulls and stepped his left foot on a larger skull. He also placed his left hand on his left knee, indicating that he thought himself a victor.

Reference

Buffalo skulls at Michigan Carbon Works, a Detroit charcoal and fertilizer factory (c1880), Picutre 14 in American Earth, edted by Bill McKibben 2008.