Photography Persuasive Essay

Good day, It is a pleasure to meet you all and I am honored to be speaking here. My name is Dorothea Lange and today I will be talking about the art of photography through my experiences as a documentary photographer. To you, photos are a way to capture memories and to store them away. For me, my “photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still” and it finds beauty in places that most people do not look.
My current field of photography, social documentary, is a developing art form also known as concerned photography. I am committed to documenting the lives of people who are disadvantaged and impoverished . I believe that the photo itself is deeper than just the paper that it is printed on. As a documentary photographer,
Actually, though, it wasn’t narrow at all. The deeper I got into it, the bigger it became.” As it dawned on me the unfairness that 120,000 people had been taken from their homes just because of their race, it was appalling. It was difficult to find the right ways to portray the injustice brought upon the internees. Many of my photos at that time, best represented by the photo titled The Mochida Family, focused on the eery similarity of the identification tags made for the families which resembled those tied to their baggage. Since the government wanted the photos to portray the fact that no one was being mistreated they did not give us permission to photograph the barbed wire fences, armed guards, or watchtowers. The nature of deceiving the public eye was horrid in my view and my photos began to show the increasing amount of effort taken to reveal the truth. The government, fearing that they would fuel outrage against the treatment of internees, impounded many of my photos. However the truth cannot be hidden and it is my firm belief that one day my photographs will shine