Artist: Dorothea Lange
Medium: Unknown
Year: Unknown
Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) has been called the greatest American documentary photographer. She is best known for her chronicles of the Great Depression and for her photographs of migratory farm workers. Dorothea Lange was a natural photographer in the truest sense because she lived, in her words, "a visual life." She could look at something: a line of laundry flapping in the wind, a pair of old, wrinkled, work-worn hands, a bread-line, a crowd of people in a bus station, and find it beautiful. Her eye was a camera lens and her camera--as she put it--an "appendage of the body."
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
I think that it is interesting that she could look at basically anything and think it's beautiful! To me that is that something that a photographer needs because you need to have an eye for things. I love that she always said that the camera was an appendage of her body.
Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):Katlin
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