A report on my chosen photographer: Dorothea Lange It's a quick presentation on her style, the camera she uses and her five most well-known works with description. This a report for my Humanities Class Source: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-lange-dorothea-artworks.htm#pnt_3

1. Dorothea Lange
Ilyana A. Causing

2. Dorothy Lange
An American documentary photographer and
photojournalist
Date of Birth: May 26, 1895
Place of Birth: Hoboken, New Jersey
Studied photography at Columbia University, New
York City
Worked with the federal Resettlement Administration
(RA) / Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1935
to 1939

3. Dorothea Lange
Her style is Documentary Photography
Techniques applied were lexicon of modernisms – dramatic angles and
dynamic compositions
Her works influenced the development of documentary photography
Her work usually are portraits of displaced farmers during the Great
Depression
Her photographs also humanized the consequences of the Great Depression
Other works also include pots-war years images

4. Camera: Graflex Super D
 The Graflex Super D was equipped with
the ƒ: 5,6 Kodak 190 mm Lens.
 Manufactured from 1941 - 1963

5. The White Angel Breadline (1933)
Drawn to the lines of people waiting for
worker's compensation or food relief,
the image of this elderly man waiting
for food at the soup kitchen embodies
the depressed mood of the times.

6. Migrant Mother (1936)
The indescribably poignant expression
on Thompson's face stands out from
between the bowed heads of her sons,
whose presence reveals the nature of
her concerns.

7. Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands
(1936)
The white man with his foot resting on
the car seems to be proudly showing off
his belongings, including the four black
men in the background. The positioning
of the men so conveniently fits into
Lange's social commentary as to be
almost comical, echoing what is
ridiculous in the very concept of racial
discrimination between whites and
blacks.

8. Members of the Mochida Family (1942)
This is a photo of the members of the
Mochida family awaiting an evacuation
bus. Identification tags are used to aid
in keeping the family unit intact during
all phases of evacuation.
The solemnity and portrait style of this
photograph counteracts the indignity of
the Mochida family's pending
internment. The tags that hang from
their clothing are clearly displayed,
echoing those on their luggage and
drawing attention to their treatment as
less than human.

9. Argument in a Trailer Camp (1944)
The strained relationship between this
couple represents the tension caused by
changing gender roles, as women
increasingly joined the workforce
during the war years. With the woman
in the lighted foreground, Lange casts
the female into the role of actor, while
the man is relegated to the shadows.