Dorothea Mackellar

Seeing some of the photographs and putting a meaning behind them was very influential on my perception of Dorothea Lange. Of course, I had seen many of her photographs, but seeing them through her eyes was an interesting experience for me. I found certain photographs informative of the times. Others, I found descriptive of something larger. Some were even beautiful…

Dorothea Lange is one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Born in May 1895 in the United States her real last name was Nutzhorn. Lange was the maiden name of her mother, which Dorothea adopted as her own. She learned photography was enrolling in the New York school Clarence H. White, an American photographer, teacher and one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession movement, his influences where family and the rural social life of America. She studied there…

From the timeline, you can tell that Dorothea Dix was responsible from a very young age. Her parents both sufferend and were therefore unable to be good parents due to depression and alcohol. This led Dix to have to care for herself. She became a school teacher at 14 and ended up publishing a textbook few years after that. A quote from it reads, “Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful…

A Mother’s Heart: The Determination to Live Dorothea Lange is a famous photographer, mainly known for her photographs during the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the deepest and longest economic downturn in the United States. Many people lost their jobs and money, forcing them to become homeless. Lange expresses this era in America through her photographs. A widely known photo representing that time was “Migrant Mother”. The photograph displays Florence Owens Thompson, a weary mother…

the country Dorothea desires as it is the Australian bush that calls to her. (England) as tame because it is portrayed with "ordered woods" and "soft skies". However, Mackellar characterizes Australia as wild with a vivid description of the starkness and cruel beauty of the country she loved by using words like "ragged mountains" and "sweeping plains”. Mackellar is emphasizing the differences between England and Australia to highlight the unique identity of her adopted country. Mackellar uses…

quarter of those Australians locked up in our prisons. "And if you're a juvenile it is worse, it is 50 per cent. An Indigenous child is more likely to be locked up in prison than they are to finish high school." He referenced a famous poem from Dorothea Mackellar, saying his people's rights "were extinguished because we were not here according to British law". "I love a sunburned country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges," Grant quoted from the poem My Country. "It…

who die young. The data he presents on population rates in the Indigenous community reveals the growing concern the culture is entitled to. The death of the indigenous is a sustained theme throughout Grant’s speech. Grant speaks of the poem by Dorothea Mackellar "I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges," (My Country). The famous Australian poem is presented as contradictive to the Australian Dream. He describes the land to have more meaning than the beauty…