Dorothea Lange was born May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965 was an
powerful American documentary photographer and photojournalist, well known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's work opened the eyes of many on the impact of the Great Depression and prejudiced the advance of documentary photography.
Dorothea Lange uses all 4 elements in her work as she demonstrates lands, fire is portrayed through the hot sun which people had to work through, at this time there was hardy any water demonstrating the necessity of water and air is shown through the wind blowing the soil which destroyed the crops. She demonstrates the effects of too much or too little of any of these elements.
Dorothea Lange uses all 4 elements in her work as she demonstrates lands, fire is portrayed through the hot sun which people had to work through, at this time there was hardy any water demonstrating the necessity of water and air is shown through the wind blowing the soil which destroyed the crops. She demonstrates the effects of too much or too little of any of these elements.
This is my favourite Dorothea Lange photograph as I believe it tells a story of a little boy who is forced at a young age to work hard and help out in the farm, however, he has other aspirations and dreams outside of farm life. As an audience, the reason why I get this story from this image is because in the background you can notice farmers and farm land and in the foreground, the little boy figure is looking out in the distance with his back towards the land clearly tired and I get the message that he does not want to continue farming for the rest of his life and is dreaming of his 'American dream' someday.
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