Dorothea lange

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

Dorothea Nutzhorn (Lange)

• Was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 26th of May, 1895.

• When Lange was seven she got polio. She had a limp the rest of her life.

• When her father left her family she changed her last name to her mothers maiden name.

“I Live a Visual Life”

• "One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I've only touched it, just touched it.“-Dorothea Lange

• Dorothea Lange in 1965© 1997, Rondal Partridge

Inspiration

• Lange was an active photographer. She wanted to show the world for what it was.

• The world did not fully feel the emotions of her photos until 1972.

• She was and still is an inspiration to all photographers.

• Though Lange showed the hard lives of Americans she captured her subjects beauty.

• She opened the our eyes to the cruelty of the imprisoned Japanese Americans, the harshness of the Depression and so much more.

Who was Dorothea Lange

• She studied to be a teacher than changed her mind deciding to be a photographer.

• She studied under Clarence White at Columbia University.

• In 1918 Lange moved to San Francisco to start a portrait studio.

Dorothea Lange,1932.HistoryPlace. 5 December 2010 <http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html>.

Life in San Francisco

•After Lange joined the California Camera Club she met Consuelo Kanga.•Lange admired Kanga’s idea of photography and followed her form of style. •Kanga was a photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Dorothea Lange,1930. History Place. 4 December 2010 <http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

The Depression

• Lange was very successful until the Depression in 1929.

• During the Depression she started to turn to social realism.

• Her first series of photos were of unemployed males, White Angel Breadline (1932).

• Her own photos showed her Americas critics.• In 1934 Williard Van Dyke published an article

showing and talking about Lange’s work.

•Dorothea Lange has been called the greatest American documentary photographer .•She is best known for her photos of the Great Depression and for her photographs of farm workers.Dorothea Lange 1932. Redriver Historian. 4 Dec. http://www.redriverhistorian.com/desperation.html

The view finder of the DepressionThis photo that many of us know is called "Migrant Mother“. It is one of a series of photographs that Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in February or March -1936.Dorothea Lange 1939. History Place . 4Dec. 2010

Near Coolidge, Maricopa County, Arizona. This young girl works in cotton field on Saturday morning.

Dorothea Lange 1939. History Place . 4Dec. 2010

• "Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.“

• Dorothea Lange

• "The camera is an instrument that teaches peoplehow to see without a camera."

• Dorothea Lange

Near Coolidge, Arizona. These families are picking their own cotton. Because they can not afford help.

Dorothea Lange,1938.HistoryPlace. 5 December 2010 <http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html>.

Dorothea Lange,1938.HistoryPlace. 5 December 2010 <http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

Dorothea Lange 1932. Redriver Historian. 4 Dec. http://www.redriverhistorian.com/desperation.html

Dorothea Lange,1938.HistoryPlace. 5 December 2010 <http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

On Arizona Highway 87, south of Chandler, Arizona. This a grandma and baby of migratory family. They came from Amarillo, Texas, to pick cotton in Arizona.

Works Cited• “Today in History”. 7 Oct.2000. 4 Dec.2010 <

memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct11.html>

• “History Place” 2000. 3 Dec.20010 http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

• “Dorothea Lange” 2003, 4Dec. 2010 http://www.redriverhistorian.com/desperation.html

• Gushue, John “Dot Dot Dot “ 2 Feb 2006 4 Dec 2010johngushue.typepad.com/index.html

• Horace Bristol “The Photos of Time” 2009 4Dec 2010www.thescreamonline.com/photo/photo2-4/bristol

• Susannah Abby “Artist Hero” Dec 4 2010• http://myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=d_lange