by: hannah feist. dorothea lange place of birth: hoboken, nj date of birth: may 26 th, 1895 place of...

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.