Dorothea
LTA Essay
Dorothea Lange, The photographer that I did my research on was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She lived in New Jersey until she went to study in New York City to become a teacher but later on she decided to leave the teaching career and focus on Photography. While focusing on becoming a Photographer, in 1919 she moved to San Francisco and opened a portrait studio in the city. Later in 1935, Dorothea was invited to join the Farm Security Administration and after that she joined other photograph groups which other famous photographers were part of. In 1920, Dorothea last name was no longer Lange, she married a man named Maynard Dixon a western painter. She had two sons with Maynard Dixon. But there marriage didn't last long. In 1935, Dorothea married Paul Schuster Taylor a Economic professor that taught at University of California. Both of them were then husband and Wife but not only that they made a team. Both of them worked together to document rural poverty and migrant laborers for five years, Taylor interviewed the migrants while Dorothea took pictures. On October 11, 1965 Dorothea Lange died, it was said that she dies of Esophageal Cancer.
But before she died her style varied a lot during her photography career and caputured the americans souls. When she joined the Farm Security Administration she mostly took photographs of the migrant camps, the migrant children and adults in the resettlement administration. The farms and migrants had very deep expressions and that makes her style be her own, unique. For example, the Migrants at the camps and the pea pickers had depressed and tired expressions. Her style was documentary like a PhotoJournalist. But she mostly took images of the peoples faces as known as portraits. Not only the faces where the big part of the images but the background for example where they lived. Since the migrants were very poor. This all took place during the bad times in america's economy. Her documentary
Dorothea Lange, The photographer that I did my research on was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She lived in New Jersey until she went to study in New York City to become a teacher but later on she decided to leave the teaching career and focus on Photography. While focusing on becoming a Photographer, in 1919 she moved to San Francisco and opened a portrait studio in the city. Later in 1935, Dorothea was invited to join the Farm Security Administration and after that she joined other photograph groups which other famous photographers were part of. In 1920, Dorothea last name was no longer Lange, she married a man named Maynard Dixon a western painter. She had two sons with Maynard Dixon. But there marriage didn't last long. In 1935, Dorothea married Paul Schuster Taylor a Economic professor that taught at University of California. Both of them were then husband and Wife but not only that they made a team. Both of them worked together to document rural poverty and migrant laborers for five years, Taylor interviewed the migrants while Dorothea took pictures. On October 11, 1965 Dorothea Lange died, it was said that she dies of Esophageal Cancer.
But before she died her style varied a lot during her photography career and caputured the americans souls. When she joined the Farm Security Administration she mostly took photographs of the migrant camps, the migrant children and adults in the resettlement administration. The farms and migrants had very deep expressions and that makes her style be her own, unique. For example, the Migrants at the camps and the pea pickers had depressed and tired expressions. Her style was documentary like a PhotoJournalist. But she mostly took images of the peoples faces as known as portraits. Not only the faces where the big part of the images but the background for example where they lived. Since the migrants were very poor. This all took place during the bad times in america's economy. Her documentary