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September 16, 2026

Photo Essay Continued

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  1. Present your photo essay and explain how you: • framed

    & edited each picture • why you picked a wide/ medium/close-up for each shot • and how each picture leads into the next and drives the story forward
  2. 1] Introductory or overall – usually a wide angle or

    aerial shot that establishes the scene. 2] Medium – focuses on one activity or one group. 3] Close Up – zeroes in on one element, like a persons hands or an intricate detail of a building. 4] Portrait – usually either a dramatic, tight head shot or a person in his or her environmental setting. 5] Interaction – people conversing or in action. 6] Signature – summarizes the situation with all the key storytelling elements in one photo – often called the decisive moment. 7] Sequence – a how-to, before and after, or a series with a beginning, middle and end (the sequence gives the essay a sense of action). 8] Clincher – a closer that would end the story.
  3. LEARNING FROM THE PROS fi “Country Doctor” was an instant

    classic when rst published, establishing Smith as a master of the uniquely commanding young art form of the photo essay
  4. Ralph Pickering holds his 5week-old baby while waiting to be

    Dr. Ceriani's rst patient of the day. Pickering, a horseback guide to tourists coming to see the majestic Rocky Mountains, traveled from an outlying ranch to reach the doctor's of ce. fi fi 2.
  5. Dr. Ceriani sits at bedside of a patient as he

    assesses u symptoms during a house call. When Smith began "Country Doctor," he shot for a period of time with no lm in his camera, to help Ceriani get used to his presence without wasting precious lm. fi fl fi 3.
  6. In the backseat of a car, Dr. Ceriani administers a

    shot of morphine to a 60year-old tourist from Chicago, seen here with her grandson, who was suffering from a mild heart disturbance. 4.
  7. Dr. Ceriani examines a feverish 4-year-old girl suffering from tonsillitis.

    Although most of his patients were children, Ceriani was initially inexperienced in pediatrics when he started his practice, and studied up on it whenever he had the chance. 5.
  8. Though he had no vacations and few days off, Dr.

    Ceriani did have use of a small hospital, which was equipped with an Xray machine, an autoclave and an oxygen tent, among other medical necessities. Here, he explains an X-ray -- he developed the lm himself -- to one of his rancher patients. fi 6.
  9. 7. fi The doctor tapes a patient who broke some

    ribs after a horse rolled over him. "His income for covering a dozen elds is less than a city doctor makes by specializing in just one," LIFE's editors noted, "but Ceriani is compensated by the affection of his patients and neighbors, by the high place he has earned in his community and by the fact that he is his own boss. For him, this is enough."
  10. Dr. Ceriani uses a syringe to irrigate wax from an

    elderly man's ear to improve his hearing. 8.
  11. fi Two friends transport Dr. Ceriani to Gore Canyon so

    he can enjoy a few hours of recreational shing, a rare treat for the hardworking physician. 10.
  12. 12. fi Thirty minutes into his shing excursion, Dr. Ceriani

    is called to an emergency: A young girl has been kicked in the head by a horse and is badly injured.
  13. 13. The child's worried parents look on as Dr. Ceriani,

    surrounded by nurses, examines their 2-year-old daughter.
  14. Dr. Ceriani has stitched the girl's wound to minimize scarring,

    but he must now nd a way to tell the parents that her eye cannot be saved and they must take her a specialist in Denver to have it removed. fi 14.
  15. 15. The doctor helps a rancher carry his son into

    the hospital. The inebriated young man dislocated his elbow when he was thrown from a bronco at a rodeo.
  16. 17. "Don't tell my mother," said the young man. Still

    under the effects of ether, he didn't realize she'd been holding his hand during the procedure
  17. Dr. Ceriani checks the blood pressure of 85-year-old Thomas Mitchell,

    who came to the hospital with a gangrenous leg. Knowing that Mitchell might not be strong enough to endure the necessary amputation, Ceriani had been postponing surgery. 18.
  18. 19. fi When Mitchell nally rallied, the doctor gently carried

    him from the basement ward up to the operating room of the hospital, which had no elevator.
  19. Dr. Ceriani responds to a late-night call when an 82-year-old

    man suffers a heart attack at a boarding house. Town marshal Chancy Van Pelt and one of the man's fellow tenants stand by. 21.
  20. Knowing the man who suffered the heart attack at the

    boarding house will not make it through the night, Dr. Ceriani calls for a priest from the kitchen. 22.
  21. Dr. Ceriani helps the town marshal carry the heart attack

    victim to the ambulance. There, the country doctor will see that his patient is as comfortable as possible, knowing there's nothing he can do to save him. 23.
  22. 24. The treeless ranching community of Kremmling, Colo., stands on

    a 7,000-ft. plateau beneath the towering Rocky Mountains.
  23. Dr. Ceriani holds 11month-old son Gary as his wife, Bernetha,

    steadies 3-year-old Phillip on a fence while watching a parade. Though they'd been married for four years at the time Smith was pro ling the doctor, Mrs. Ceriani still struggled with the unpredictability of her husband's schedule fi 25.
  24. A fund-raising committee in Kremmling was able to raise $35,000

    in 1947 to purchase the home of the town's retiring physician and turn it into a 14-bed hospital. The funds were used to stock the tiny hospital with as much equipment -- some of it war surplus -- as could be afforded. Middle Park Hospital had only three wards that could accommodate 14 patients. With a new hospital in place, the town then put out a call for a new general practitioner -- a call answered by Dr. Ceriani. 26.
  25. After nishing a surgery that lasted until 2 AM, Dr.

    Ceriani stands exhausted in the hospital kitchen with a cup of coffee and a cigarette. "The nurses," LIFE noted, "constantly admonish him to relax and rest, but because they are well aware that he cannot, they keep a potful of fresh coffee simmering for him at all hours." fi 27.
  26. YOUR TURN! Identify the type of shot for each of

    the 28 photos in this photo essay. If photo 4 was an action shot, just label it: 4 - action