By: Hannah Feist DOROTHEA LANGE
Jan 01, 2016
By: Hannah FeistDOROTHEA LANGE
• Dorothea Lange
• Place of birth: Hoboken, NJ
• Date of birth: May 26th, 1895
• Place of death: San Francisco, California
• Date of death: October 11th, 1965
• Methods: digital
• Favorite subject matter: citizens during the Depression-era, also before, during, and after WWII
• Route to becoming a photographer: studied the art form at Columbia University, lived in San Francisco and soon opened a successful portrait studio
• Techniques: dramatic angles and dynamic compositions to create startling and often jarring images of her subjects
• Most famous photo: Migrant Mother
• Impact on society: captured citizens lives on a daily basis throughout the Great Depression and post-war era’s so others could see what it was like
PERSONAL INFORMATION
• http://www.biography.com/people/dorothea-lange-9372993#early-years
• http://www.theartstory.org/artist-lange-dorothea.htm• http://
www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/dorothea-lange
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange• http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/769844.html
REFERENCES
PHOTO GALLERY
The Road West, New Mexico
Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas
Crossroads Store, North Carolina
War Babies, Richmond, California
I chose this photographer for many reasons:
1. She seemed very interesting, as a person2. She photographed on a very important time period in history, Great
Depression era and the post-war era3. Her photos caught my attention because I would like to know what it
was like back then at that time and what she snapped definitely showed that
4. I’ve never learned about her before5. I feel like she captured the citizens feelings and thoughts very well, so
we can understand what it was like for them6. She showed a broad topic of all different things, she didn’t just take
pictures on one certain thing, it was just throughout that time in history
7. I like how all her pictures are black and white, it gives the photos more power and makes us focus on the picture as a whole and not just certain pieces of it
PERSONAL REFLECTION
RECREATED PHOTOS
Women of the High Plains
Child and Her Mother
INTERESTING FACT
• Lange was hired by certain people to photograph certain things like, the internment of Japanese Americans and the San Francisco conference that created the United Nations.