Thinking about Sources

One of the larger objectives this time around is developing our abilities when it comes to vetting sources for our projects. The other part is working with MLA: with documenting what we're finding according to the standards researchers in this field use.

I picked a photo for us to work with today: it's the one taken for The Beatles' Abbey Road album.

1. Would this source be okay for my photograph, or for an article about the image for that matter?
2. How about this one, as a good source for the photograph, or for other material, too?
3. What about this source, as one to help understand the image's significance?
4. Here's another source that discusses the photo shoot more. This one is similar. 
5. This one, too—also about the shoot.
6. One more!

Remember, from the assignment, what we're trying to discover here (and what you'll need to speak to in your brief talk):

• What can you find out about the photo and how it was taken?
• Regarding what makes this photo so famous or significant, what can you say about the composition of the photo or about its context (historically, socially, or whatever)? There's got to be a combination here, of the way the thing is composed as well as the time period within which it was created, that led to it becoming so recognizable, you know?