Dorothea Lange

approximately 120,000 individuals on United States soil. Dorothea Lange, a photographer and…

Both Millet and Lange focus on living conditions and poverty for the homeless. In Lange’s black and white photograph, Florence Owens Thompson, a thirty-two year old mother of seven, comforts three of her children. She holds a sleeping baby, and two older children bury their…

Migrant Mother was photographed by Dorothea Lange in 1936. During that time, the Great Depression was hitting homes all across America. Many families, especially low-class families, were living in poverty. Dorothea Lange happened to come across one of those families when she was traveling in Nipomo, California (Congress). Lange approached this woman who was sitting underneath a tent with her children huddled around her (Congress). Lange captured the photograph using realism/social realism and…

There seem to be three major components to the art of photography: the subject, the photographer, and the audience. The subject must simply exist while the photographer captures its presence, documenting its significance by determining the way the photograph is taken; this process includes endless aspects that are adjusted to the photographer’s liking, such as exposure, framing, lighting, and so on and so forth. These two components work together to create an image. The only “job” of the…

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two depression era photographs, Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California and Margaret Bourke¬-White’s At the Time of the Louisville Flood. Both tell a story for what was happening in America during the time of the depression, while also telling personal stories. Dorothea Lange’s photograph, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, shows a mother with three of her children. You can see the mother is worried and seem to be stressed. The…

These photos were suposed to show how the workers were suffering in hopes to get the public's sympathy for them. Lange was great and her job and really captured migrants true feelings of hurt in her pictures. One of her most famous pictures was called "Migrant Mother", which captured a tired looking woman with children resting on her. Orignally she hd took 6 pictures…

Dorothea Lange was born on May the 26th of 1895 in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey. Dorothea got polio at only 7 years old and it weakened her right leg and foot. Dorothea’s parents both wanted her to get a great education. When she was a teenager her mother and father divorced. In 1913, She joined the New York Training School for Teachers. She pursued a profession in photography and studied photography at Columbia University. She later took on a career as a photographer in San Francisco,…

There is much to be learned from analyzing Dorothea Lange’s photograph “Migrant Mother” and the article relating to it by Kevin Starr. The photograph shows a poor migrant family and how the conditions they have been living through have begun to wear them down. The article gives more personal information on the family, ones you wouldn’t have been able to get from the photo, like how the mother’s name was Florence Thompson and that, “...they had been living on frozen vegetables from surrounding…

and birds that the children would kill. I agree that she it was a good idea to photograph her family from a detached perspective because if she didn't they would have had to wait more time. They would take more time on investigating who she was. Dorothea Lange at least knew were she was located which was at "Pea Pickers Camp" in Nipomo. In my opinion I don't think knowing her name would help in any reason because she still had evidence of how they were living. Really all they needed to know was…

Documentary and War Photography “Is it in the interest of purity that society should hang its morally stained linens upon its lines to be stared at?” Jacob Riis, a documentary photographer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries asked this very question in an effort to stir the thoughts of documentary photographers around the world, as well as their audiences. Documentary photography can be defined as a type of photography that documents historically relevant events and scenes as well as…