Media 175 Principles of Digital Photography Photographer Dorothea

Media 175 Principles of Digital Photography Photographer: Dorothea Lange Presented by Tashina Woodyard

Dorothea Lange May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965 photo by Rondal Partridge "You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. " - Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange took black and white photographs of ordinary people with compelling results. Her subjects were never arranged nor her photos manipulated. She documented real life moments and shared them with the world. Photograph by Dorothea Lange

Photograph by Dorothea Lange “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it. ” -Dorothea Lange

1933 "White Angel Breadline, San Francisco" Photograph by Dorothea Lange

1937 "Sharecropper, Hall County TX" Photograph by Dorothea Lange

1937 "Spring Plowing, Guadalupe, California" Photograph by Dorothea Lange

1940's "Paul Taylor, Consumer Advocate" Photograph by Dorothea Lange

1953 "Bonded Dealer, Three Mormon Towns, Utah" Photograph by Dorothea Lange

The End Resources http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange http: //museumca. org/global/art/collections_dorothea_lange. html http: //artseal. ypguides. net/page/15 klg/Figurative_Portraiture. html