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Dorthea Lange
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Dorothea Lange• 1895-1965• "an extraordinary
phenomenon in photography.”
• Photography lifelong dream
• Columbia University• Indian Tribes/
migrants• First famous picture
“White Angel Breadline”
“photography is not an end in itself, but a means of exploring the world so as to improve it.”
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Dorothea Lange Cont.
• Govt. noticed power in photos- job U.S. Resettlement Administration document effects of depression on American agriculture
• Documentary photography
• Inspired by the Great Depression
• Looked at something and found beauty in it
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Dorothea Lange Cont.
• Goal: capture America on film
• Capture physical and emotional circumstances of the Great Depression - “Migrant Mother”
• Pictures showed suffering in everyday life
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White Angel Breadline
COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS:
•Rule of thirds
•Framing – surrounded by people
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White Angel Breadline
•Main Focal point center quadrant
•Clasped hands and cup- pray for food/ money
•Hat and cup white so stand out
•Man facing opposite direction
•I like how she captured the emotion which portrays economic hardship
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Migrant Mother
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Migrant Mother
COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS:
I like how anxiety is captured:
BACK
•hand to face
•Childrens’ heads turned away•Baby: whitest part of picture yet most unnoticed
•Wrinkled forehead and eyebrows
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I Am An American
COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS:
•Lines – signs, store windows
•Black and white adds to old effect
•Main focus on “I AM AN AMERICAN” b/c white stands out
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On Strike
COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS:
•Balance
•Black and white adds to old effect
•Powerful words on sign- stand out
•California migrant worker
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Pledge Of Allegiance
COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS:
•Japanese-American children
•Smiles on faces show innocence
•Black and white adds to old effect
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The Road West, New Mexico•Simplicity
•Black and white adds to old effect
•Emptiness
•Focuses in bottom, blurs towards top of photo
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"Slept in a bed all my life long, till now--sleeping on the ground."
COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS:
•Look of despair
•Black and white adds to old effect
•Blurry
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Migratory Cotton Picker
• COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS:
• Black and white adds to old effect
• Hand covering face- texture in hand
• Close up view to show detail
• Very dark in eye area
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Toward Los Angeles
COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS:
•Balance – men not in center of photo
•Black and white adds to old effect
•Ironic
•Texture of land, sky
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Japanese Relocation
COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS:
•Black and white adds to old effect
•Blurry from sunlight
•Taken from an angle to show long line of people
•Light bottom left corner
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Bibliography
• http://library.thinkquest.org/3776/Dorothea_Lange.html
• thinklikeaphotographer.com/ lange-handonface
• http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://myhero.com/ReadingRoom/books/Dorothea%2520Lange%2520-%2520Heart%2520and%2520Mind%2520of%2520a%2520Photographer.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp%3Fhero%3Dd_lange&h=475&w=348&sz=39&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=lnBy8Y_OxDaueM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=95&prev=
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