Dorethea lange
Dorothea Lange is one of the few female photographers who is widely recognized for her dramatic work. Lange was an acomplished photographer of great mastery and influence. Her interest and empathy for people is readily apparent in her works. Which is conveyed in her talent, where its often associeted with a documented change and human cost; the Migrant Mother. Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey; of German Descent. As a young child Lange was struck with polio, which scarred her and left her with a life long limp. She believed that it heightened her sensitivity for those who were also suffering. In Lange's childhood her father disappeared. After the incendence her grandmother rescued her and her family by taking them in, although the woman was a seamstress and demanding alcoholic. Lange attended many public and private schools in New York, she even attended the city's Lower East side and training school for teachers. At age 18, Lange announced her intention to become a photgrapher to her family. She worked part-time in a series of protrait studios. In 1914 she visited the Fifth Avenue Protrait Studio of Arnold Genthe, who gave her her first camera. In 1918 Lange moved to San Francisco and was employed as a ph
Two years later she married the artist illustrator Maynard Dixon, who was twenty years older than her. Lange then later gave birth to their first child Daniel. Lange seemed facinated with the relationship between her husband and her newborn. For she picked up her camera and decided to capture the relationship between the two. Maynard is carrying his newborn son bare; how the child came to this world. Lange compasiontlly captures the innocence of the child. Giving the message that there is nothing to hide between the two. The child's young and youthful bare body symbolizes the innocence of people. Maynard is grasphing his son closely to his chest with his two arms; near his heart. He shows the security in the relationship between a parent and a child. Showing the gesture of a never letting go manner. The arm underneath the child's bottom can be look as a symbol: "A push towards life" and a helping hand to the open doors of this new world for the child. Maynard whispers into the child's ear as if to confort and give the child a sense of security. Lange suprisingly captures also the sensitivity side of a man. Usually the male figure defined as strong-hearted, strong physically and even big and scary. But Lange's technique show a quite different definition, a strong man with big arms having a gentle touch to handle an infant, giving the child the security and reliance it needs. The history of change did not stop with the end of the Great Depression and neighter did Lange. Lange's earlier work of documentation of displacement of farm families and migrant work
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