Known for her documentary style of photography, Dorothea Nutzhorn was born May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Nutzhorn grew up in a household that strongly supported her furthering her education and advocated for exposure to creative works. Her mother, Johanna, stayed at home to raise her and her brother, Martin, while her father, Heinrich, worked as a lawyer. At age seven, she fell sick with polio, which hampered the movement of her right leg and foot. A few short years later, her parents divorced. Blaming her father for the marriage falling apart, Nutzhorn dropped her father’s surname and switched to mother’s maiden name, Lange. Growing up academics were never her strong suit, and following high school decided to pursue photography at Colombia …show more content…
Her first experience in the field of documentary photography spurred from her travels to the Southwest in the 1920s with her husband to photograph Native American life. However, in the 1930s, she shifted her focus to documenting the effects of the Great Depression in San Francisco. Around the same time, Lange met Paul Taylor, a labor economist and university professor. Brought on by an unhappy marriage to Dixon, Lange left in 1935 to travel with Taylor and document the sights and sounds of rural life for the Farm Security Administration. Her work from this era is her best known work, and out of it came the best- known piece of documentary photography in the 20th century: “Migrant Mother.” Five years later, in 1940, she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the first woman in history to be granted this. The images she captured after the Pearl Harbor bombing of the internment of Japanese Americans were confiscated by the Army because they revealed the horrifying truth of the internment communities. The Office of War Information hired her in 1945 to document the creation of the United Nations at a conference in San Francisco. In October 1965, at age 70, Lange passed away in San Francisco due to
Johnson, Brooks. Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on their Art.” New York: Aperture Foundation Inc., 2004. Print.
http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/dorotheadix.html. This site gives another overview of Dorothea Dix’s early life and career highlights, but does so with an emphasis on her finding her religious home among ...
The mentally ill was mistreated, beaten, thrown into unclean quarters, and even taken advantage of before the 1800's. They was viewed as helpless individuals. Society and the government viewed them as criminals and deemed them incurable. During the 1800's a pioneer named Dorothea Dix brought about a change dealing with the treatment of the mentally ill. She became the voice of them something they never had.
Dorothea Lange attended The New York School for Teachers from 1914 to 1917. During these years she decided to become a photographer. The photographer Arnold Genthe was her main inspiration at that time. After that she than attended and stud...
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in Mayesville, South Carolina in 1875. She had sixteen siblings, and her parents were slaves. Mary McLeod Bethune got married to Albertus Bethune in 1898, they had a son named Albert. Considering that Mary McLeod Bethune was born in the late 1800’s as a African American female, she had to fight extraneously hard to be treated as an equal.
After a brief couple of months there she moved back to the United States to California in the Bay area where she lived with her sister. She later enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute with the goal of becoming an art teacher with an emphasis in painting. As she began to take more classes focused in art she instead falls in love photography. Not soon after starting college she heads to a “Kibbutz” which is a communal settlement in Israel, typically a farm. She intended to never return to the United States again, but in 1970 despite her efforts she returns to the States to accept her frost assignment from Rolling stone and to her own surprise the photo she had taken of John Lennon makes the cover. Not long after in 1971 she received her first job with one of her soon to be long-term employers Vogue for their September issue starring the world renowned psychologist Dr. Arthur Janov who invented a new primitive form of therapy. In 1973 she receives a major accomplishment she appears on the Rolling Stone’s master head as “Chief Photographer.” Her photography does a beautiful job of capturing Nixon–era political figures and classic rock...
When the economy crashed in 1929, the majority of all Americans lost their jobs, money, and hope. With this great turn in economic stability Americans faced the harsh reality of bankruptcy or homelessness. As a result, citizens in need filled every street corner. Dorothea Lange, a young photographer at the time, found inspiration in the sad eyes of the needy. Through photos such as “Migrant Mother”, Lange captured the desperate sentiment of the decade that no words could demonstrate so clearly. Born on May 26, 1895, Dorothea Lange grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey. As a child of education advocates, Lange attended school, but never with much interest. After completing her academic education, Lange studied art form at Columbia University in 1917. Years later, she apprenticed with numerous well known photographers and eventually opened her first photography studio in California. Before photographing depression-era pieces, Lange focused on Native American culture. Howev...
Did you know that Martha Washington wasn’t married to George first? Her first marriage was to to Daniel Custis, before she became a widow. Martha was born on June 2, 1731 at Chestnut Grove Plantation, in Virginia. Then sadly she died on May 22, 1802. Martha Dandridge was born in the British colony of Virginia at her parents’ home called Chestnut Grove Plantation. Her father, John, was a successful farmer and local politician. When the Revolutionary War began Martha’s second husband George , was chosen to be the commander of the continental army.
Art could be displayed in many different forms; through photography, zines, poetry, or even a scrapbook. There are many inspirational women artists throughout history, including famous women artists such Artemisia Gentileschi and Georgia O’Keeffe. When searching for famous female artists that stood out to me, I found Frida Kahlo, and Barbara Kruger. Two very contrasting type of artists, though both extremely artistic. Both of these artists are known to be feminists, and displayed their issues through painting and photography. Frida Kahlo and Barbara Kruger’s social and historical significance will be discussed.
Dorothea had spent a long day capturing images and she was going back to print the images when she had drove past a sign that said, “Pea Picker’s Camp.” Dorothea continued to drive thinking she had enough photographs she did not need anymore. Something struck her that she could not resist and eventually she turned around saying, “I was following instinct, not reason” (Partridge, Lange 2). She stopped at the worn down camp and was intrigued by a mother and her seven children. Dorothea took her camera over to them and no one asked any questions. She captured only six images of this mother and her youngest children. The woman had told Dorothea that the freezing rain and sleet had ruined the pea crop. They did not have any work and they had to sell tires for food (Partridge, Lange 3). Dorothea had no idea what those images would do for her career, but she knew she had to show the world what those people in “Pea Picker’s Camp” were going through.
Eliza Farnham was known for her talent in writing which made her national. Mrs.Farnham passed away from consumption in New York in the year of 1864 on the 15th of December at the age of 49. She grew up with foster parents from the age of four. When Eliza turned 15 she moved in with her uncle, and attended the Albany Female Academy. In 1835, Eliza Burhans moved in with a sister who was married in Tazewell county, Illinois. During the 18 century, Cornelius and Mary Wood Burhans gave birth to Eliza Burhans in November 17, 1815. Eliza Burhans was born in Hudson Valley Town of Rensselaerville, New York. Eliza Farnham was involved in numerous events during her time known as Vanguard of several social, political movements including abolitionism,
Social realist art, which dominated in the US during the Depression, communicates the concerns of the masses: artists question the treatment of the poor and praise American values embodied in ordinary people. In painting, Thomas Hart Benton’s murals depict an extravagance juxtaposed alongside honest, hardworking people, calling into question the actions and greed leading up to the Great Depression. Benton’s murals in both subject and medium penetrate the American political landscape, purporting such ideal values as hardworking and honesty. In photography, Dorothea Lange captures in the flesh the realities of the working poor. In her photograph Migrant Mother (1936) Lange portrays simultaneously the oppression and resilience of the working
Annie Leibovitz (born Anna-Lou) was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on October 2 1949 to her father Samuel Leibovitz, a was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and her mother, Marilyn Edith, née Heit, a modern dance instructor of Estonian Jewish heritage. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz) Because her father was part of the military, it forced her and her large family to move around constantly. “Years before it ever occurred to me that one could have a life as a photographer, I became accustomed to looking at life through a frame. The frame was the window of my family’s car as we traveled from one military base to another.” (Leibovitz 11) Annie attended Northwood High School and became interested in a variety of artistic accomplishments such as writing, music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she enrolled as a painting major in 1967. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while working various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Amir, Israel, for several months in 1969. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz)
Born to Nettie Lee Smith and Bill Smith on December 18, 1918 in Wichita, Kansas was William Eugene Smith, who would later revolutionize photography. His mother Nettie was into photography, taking photos of her family, especially her two sons as they grew up, photographing events of their lives (Hughes 2). Photography had been a part of Smith’s life since he was young. At first it started out always being photographed by his mother, and then turned into taking photographs along with his friend Pete, as he got older. They often practiced developing photos in Nettie’s kitchen, and he later began to create albums with his photographs. His photographs diff...
Marrs, Suzanne. Eudora Welty(tm)s Photography: Images into Fiction. Critical Essays on Eudora Welty. W. Craig Turner and Lee Emling Harding. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1989. 288-289.