Three Photographs Taken During The Great Depression
Assignment 3
The three photographs I chose to analyze are:
1) Dorothea Lange, destitute Pea Pickers in California, also known as Migrant Mother.
2) Margaret Bourke-White, Kentucky Flood.
3) Dorothea Lange, Toward Los Angeles.
The photographs taken during the Great Depression were documenting what was happening in that time. These photographs were offering a visual evidence to the viewer. These three photographs were depicting the poverty, pain, and sufferance of the migrant agricultural workers in the 1930s Depression Era. In the Migrant Mother, dorothea Lange’s most famous photograph, she captured the facial expressions that showed the pain and hopelessness on the 32-year-old mother of seven. This photograph was taken of Florence Owens Thompson the destitute pea picker with two toddlers and a baby in her arms. The desperate look on this mother’s face, communicate all the hopelessness, pain and misery of this migrant worker. According to Roy Stryker, this photograph was the “Ultimate” photo of the Great Depression Era. All these three photographs manage to specifically convey to the viewer how impoverished these people were. The ragged dirty clothes that these agricultural laborers were wearing speaks of their penniless, and poverty stricken …show more content…
These photographers were looking for a remedy to resolve these migrant workers pain and sufferance. Dorothea Lange photography was famous for enticing change in the country and influencing the government to dispense federal aid or intervention for the people in need. These photographers had humanitarian goals behind their talent for photography. They used this form of art to highlight this Great Depression sufferance and bring it to light. They documented these people, in these locations, in these poses to bring change and awareness by publishing their work in an effort to influence the government to step in and help these
The three photographs I chose to analyze are:
1) Dorothea Lange, destitute Pea Pickers in California, also known as Migrant Mother.
2) Margaret Bourke-White, Kentucky Flood.
3) Dorothea Lange, Toward Los Angeles.
The photographs taken during the Great Depression were documenting what was happening in that time. These photographs were offering a visual evidence to the viewer. These three photographs were depicting the poverty, pain, and sufferance of the migrant agricultural workers in the 1930s Depression Era. In the Migrant Mother, dorothea Lange’s most famous photograph, she captured the facial expressions that showed the pain and hopelessness on the 32-year-old mother of seven. This photograph was taken of Florence Owens Thompson the destitute pea picker with two toddlers and a baby in her arms. The desperate look on this mother’s face, communicate all the hopelessness, pain and misery of this migrant worker. According to Roy Stryker, this photograph was the “Ultimate” photo of the Great Depression Era. All these three photographs manage to specifically convey to the viewer how impoverished these people were. The ragged dirty clothes that these agricultural laborers were wearing speaks of their penniless, and poverty stricken …show more content…
These photographers were looking for a remedy to resolve these migrant workers pain and sufferance. Dorothea Lange photography was famous for enticing change in the country and influencing the government to dispense federal aid or intervention for the people in need. These photographers had humanitarian goals behind their talent for photography. They used this form of art to highlight this Great Depression sufferance and bring it to light. They documented these people, in these locations, in these poses to bring change and awareness by publishing their work in an effort to influence the government to step in and help these