However, there was only one photographer that truly captured the souls of Americans. According to Roy Stryker, Dorothea Lange "had the most sensitivity and the most rapport with people" (Stryker and Wood 41). Dorothea Lange was a phenomenal photographer that seized the hearts of people during the 1930s and beyond, and greatly affected the times of the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. When she was seven years old, she had become lame from polio. Polio
Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey to second-generation German immigrants. Her passion for photography began when she attended Columbia University in New York City, and eventually her talent landed her several prestigious apprenticeships in New York photography studios. After graduation Lange moved to San Francisco and opened her own successful portrait studio in 1919. Lange’s work was primarily portrait photography for upper-class families in San Francisco, however her
often said, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. One of the most significant images of Twentieth Century America was the photograph of a migrant mother holding her child. The photograph was taken during the Great Depression by photographer Dorothea Lange, and has remained an enduring symbol of the hardship and struggle faced by many families during the Depression Era. This image was also an example of the manipulation of photography, however, for it used two major forms of manipulation that remain
Through out the Great Depression there were many photographers, but one of the best was Dorothea Lange. Lange was born on the 25th of May in 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey as the first child of Joan and Henry Nutzhorn. She decided to become a photographer at the age of 18. She studied photography at Columbia University in New York. At the age of 20 she began to travel the world. Later in life she settled down in San Francisco, California, where she met her first husband, artist Maynard Dixon. She had
The artist known as Dorothea Lange is renowned as one of the most influential photographers of the Great Depression. This unit of study is focused on the in-depth history of Lange, her art collection as a whole, her aesthetic appeal to the public, and how to apply her work to a production lesson for 4th or 5th grade. Dorothea Lange was born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey on May 25, 1895 to Henry Nutzhorn and Joanna Lange. In 1901 Martin, Dorothea’s brother, was born to the
during that time period. When I first saw the photograph of the “Migrant Mother,” I could not get the image out of my head because it tugged at my heart and it is something I have wanted to learn more about since we discussed Dorothea Lange in class. Dorothea Lange is a photographer known for her best work during the 1930s with the Farm Security Administration. Her career however did not start out like that. At
This photograph by Dorothea Lange speaks a thousand words. It was take in February of 1963, during The Great Depression. The picture displays a family comprised of 3 young children and their 32-year old mother (Natanson). Although it is hard to distinguish the gender of the children, we still know they are a family. It is also noted that Lange had written down that this was a “mother of seven children” (By Depicting). Both of the children are looking down and away which gives the audience reason
as a journalist and secondly as an artist, creating photojournalism. Doretha Lange worked with a fairly high desire to affect society by changing and informing the citizens within the society of the suffering. Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter. Alfred Stieglitz was very instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form (The Art Story). Unlike Doretha Lange, Alfred Stieglitz tried making photography an art. Alfred Stieglitz once said
The picture titled “Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange is one of the most influential pictures throughout American history. The photograph exhibits the Florence Thompson’s face who is seen “with a furrowed forehead, and her two children who are shyly hiding their faces into the shoulders of Thompson” (Lanster, 2017). There are many aspects about why the photograph became one of the most iconic pictures in America. In many ways the pictures depict the effects in which the Great Depression had on parents
Dorothea Lange, born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn, was a famous documentary photographer during the great depression. Lange was born on May 26th 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey, and at age seven, contracted polio. Due to suffering from polio at a young age, Lange suffered weakness in her right leg, and had a limp throughout her adult life. At age 12, her father abandoned her family, causing her to ultimately drop her middle name, and replace her last name with her mother’s maiden name, Lange. She died
pressure (Lange 13). The health of the heart also depends upon the functioning of the valves. The narrowing of valve openings decreases the pumping efficiency of the heart and limits the amount of blood that is pumped to the body. Valves may partially close reducing the amount of blood to the rest of the body and consequently putting excess pressure on the lungs (Lange 18). Five million Americans are currently living with heart failure and 50% of these patients will die within five years (Lange 13). The
among various organizations has shown that, actually, payment bonuses are not enough to increase workers’ satisfaction. Presents given insincerely and in an inappropriate way would not please employees, and such recognition has no value to them. Eric Lange, working for a trucking company, gives an example of the presents given to his company’s vice-presidents. He says that even though they received expensive gifts – luxurious Cadillac Seville automobile, and a new Rolex wristwatch, they were not distributed
photographers such as Dorthea Lange and Walker Evans, who show the political angle in their documentations and the method of cropping in the process of making the photo capture exactly what the photographer wants the audience to view. In this paper I will use outside sources that support and expand on Coles ideas with focus on human actuality, the interiority of a photograph, and the emotional impact of cropping. According to Coles and an outside source I found, Lange is a documentarian who vividly
Rome fell in 476 AD, the subsequent 1000 years made up a period of time called the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages are often referred to as the Dark Ages because of the way of life in Europe during that age. William Manchester suggests that this time period was actually a dark age, in his A World Lit Only By Fire. Manchester describes the ‘Dark Ages’ as a “mélange of incessant warfare, corruption, lawlessness, obsession with strange myths, and an almost impenetrable mindlessness”. He also states how
history of the Lange family spans back almost over 100 years ago with the birth of Grandfather Clark Lange in 1917 who then married Catherine Phelan (b: 1922) in November of 1946, which then began the Lange family lineage. Catherine and Clark gave birth to Walter (b: 1947), Anne (b: 1949), Paul (b: 1951), Mary (b: 1954), Brian (b: 1957), and Peter (b: 1961) into the family. From there, Water and Carol Ann Ronan who married in August of 1970 gave birth to Daniel Lange in 1973, Catherine Lange in 1971, and
An exhibition titled Women of the American Exodus featuring Dorothea Lange’s works will be taking place at an art studio in Nipomo, California where Lange’s famous picture Migrant Mother was taken. Lange is a documentary photographer and used the photographs that she shot to chronicle significant and historical events whose subjects were most often those affected by the Great Depression and poverty (Cathy Ostrom Peters). The pictures are arranged into order of increasing age of the subject in a dimly
Have you ever felt that good love is also bad love? Should popularity choose your decisions? Have you ever felt invisible? Like no one cares? Well in the book Butter by Erin Jade Lange "Butter" is a lonely obese teenager whom ways 423 pounds. Butter is nicknamed after an incident he suffered in which he was bullied and was forced to eat a dirty stick of butter. Butter is so lonely and sick of his life that one night he on the Internet invites everyone to watch him eat himself to death live on New
The picture titled “Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange has been made one of the most influential pictures throughout American history. The photograph exhibits the face of Florence Thompson with a furrowed forehead, and her two children who are shyly hiding their faces into the shoulders of Thompson. There are many aspects as to why the photograph became a national picture. In many ways the pictures depicts the effects in which the Great Depression had on parents who were struggling to persevere through
weather conditions during the 1930’s causing Americans to suffer through extreme hardship and poverty. Many of the migrant farmers were bankrupt and poverty- stricken, so they were struggling to survive. Photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange, captured the dangerous conditions migrant workers and their families endured through her photograph, Migrant Mother. The photograph shows a woman and children suffering, but it also shows the determination and willpower the woman had to provide for
Jessica Lange’s mission is to immerse audiences in the beauty of music and movement. Her dance aesthetic is very clear and full of volume and fluidity. Her uses of unforeseen props, lighting, music quality and the emotion of her dancers set her apart from many today’s choreographers. To do my research I decided to focus on six of Jessica’s pieces. The pieces I chose were Thousand Yard Stare (2016), Tesseracts of Time (2015), The Wanderer (2014), Lines Cubed (2012), Her Road (2017), and i.n