Dorthea Lange

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Dorthea Lange
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Dorothea Lange
By Lindsay Roffman
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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
BACK

• COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS
• I like how anxiety is captured

• Baby whitest part of picture yet most unnoticed

• Childrens heads turned away

• Wrinkled forehead and eyebrows

• hand to face

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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
• I like mans dazed expression on face
• 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
• I like how happiness is shown at a depressing
  time in history

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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
• I like how it shows loneliness

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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
• I like angle picture is taken from- not direct

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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
• I like the irony revealed
• 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.
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• thinklikeaphotographer.com/ lange-handonface
• http//images.google.com/imgres?imgurlhttp//myhe
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