Dorothea Lange

#1) All humans have something in common, they live on Earth. And with this Earth, there is always a continuing necessity to protect it despite various obstacles. Through and through, the United States of America has continued to engage in various environmental protection programs in order to safeguard the country and its inhabitants. Interestingly, the thirty-second president of this nation took action and did just that, and took serious action in order to protect the country as a whole from…

Introduction Portraiture redefined art due to creation and enhancement of artistic value within the photography sphere. Artists such as Dorothea Lange, Roy DeCarava and Diane Arbus utilized portraiture to capture raw emotions and personalities of their subjects through use of different approaches of portraiture. The work of these artists inscribed new meaning to photography while at the same time challenging established ideas of photography by infusing new styles of photo portraiture. This…

The Meaning of Art In Dorothy Allison’s, This is Our World, she creates many arguments about art, artists, and the way art is viewed. There are many times throughout the essay where she claims the audience can interpret art differently. However, this is not always the case. The interpretation of art is not always up to the audience. The audience can view art differently, but it is not the choice of the audience, it 's the choice of the artist to allow them to perceive it differently. Allison…

The status of African Americans in the 1930’s was very cruel and a very tough time. Black people were being considered as dirt at the time. Many factors decided the status of African Americans, such as The Jim Crow Laws, The Great Depression at the time and the original treatment by white people and how they are superior to them. These issues were definitely related politically and socially to the To Kill a Mocking Bird novel because the book is known for treatment of black people and the status…

Once before a moment could only be captured and maintained in memory or history through painting, drawing, and sculptures. People had always looked for a way to get pictures without the long and tedious work of artist. Scientist of many generations from different countries of the world came together and developed the new art of photography. Scientist discovered this by a sunbeam projecting through a tiny hole in a dark room, the light from the sun would leave a drawing of the object on the…

American artist, Andy Warhol, once said, “they always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Many see that one must take action before they get anywhere. Artist feel the need to express themselves in various ways in order to prove that rather than looking at the value of the work itself, society should focus on taking matters into their own hands for the betterment of the nation. Artist of the early 1900’s constructs themselves into society so that a change can…

The series D is well known as the camera that Dorothea Lange used in her world famous photographs. The super series D is not much different than the series D camera. The super series D camera had an automatic diaphragm setting capability in the lens, and a built-in electrical circuit for automatic open-flash…

Although the Roaring 20’s and the Great Depression are consecutive time periods in the United States, both periods impacted the american visual arts in different ways. During the 1920’s the United States economy was thriving while socially, younger generations were jumping onto the new era of the pop culture and extending their creativity by breaking traditional styles and themes. Influenced by the developing world, the visual arts also did the same, “[a]rt...in the 1920s was all about testing…

That was a government agency which had the task of fighting poverty in rural America. They hired photographers to document the need to be sure that the funds were being allocating correctly. This meant that photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans and Russell Lee went to rural America to photograph the hardships the people in the Heartland were facing. The photographs they took of rural America not only increased awareness of the suffering, they created…

Art became a political statement (and a way of protest) in a way to share their opinions about the war (WWI and WWII). While millions of young men were killed in battle, the ideas of traditional Western art had changed. Artist such as George Grosz, Miné Okubo, Otto Dix, and Käthe Kollwitz reshaped art perception, and forever changed the perception of who we view war. Though, WWII had a bigger effect in the world, WWI’s classical dispute of the modern-day, not only politically but culturally as…