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A Picture is Worth a Thousand..Feelings: Dorothea Lange and her Photographs By: Lauren Pavao FSA Resettlement Act created 1935. Take photos of what population was enduring during Depression. Dorothea Lange hired 1935, soon after RA began. Name change to Farm Security Administration (FSA).
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand..Feelings: Dorothea Lange and her Photographs By: Lauren Pavao
FSA • Resettlement Act created 1935. • Take photos of what population was enduring during Depression. • Dorothea Lange hired 1935, soon after RA began. • Name change to Farm Security Administration (FSA).
Dorothea Lange • Took a more personal approach to her photos; making them personal yet prideful. • Lange: “Documentary photography is less a matter of subject, and more a matter of approach.” • Stryker: “Stark, merciless approach yet her pictures reflected a dignity of spirit that is unique.”
“Migrant Pea Picker on the Road to California” • Though surroundings are desolate and bleak there is still a sense of hope. • Exhibits strength in people.
Personal Theme • Looks of desertion amongst Lange’s photos • Naked fields, deserted houses, human abandonment
Wants in a Photo • Lange stated: 1st- hands; off-do not “tamper with or arrange” the scene. 2nd-get a “sense of place…picture as part of its surroundings.” 3rd-get a “sense of time..having its position in the past or present.”
Honest Photography • Photographed the rural poor. • Southern racial codes. • The Great Depression. • Was told to shoot “men, women, and children who appear as if they really believe in the United States”
Unique Style Example • “On the Road Towards Los Angeles, 1937” • Billboard drew negative attention • Photo catches viewers eye
In conclusion • She conveyed a mood not a particular circumstance or activity. • Known to have the “most sensitivity and rapport with the people.”-Stryker • Evoked thousands of feelings unlike thousands of words.