Dorothea Lange

This is one of Dorotheas most famous pictures. This picture is called "Migrant Woman." I really like this picture because it shows what is going on at the time of the depression. I think having the children there also impacts the picture because children are involved. I think the black and white is interesting because you just look at her expression and not at what she is wearing.
This picture actually scares me.Its because his eyes look almost white.But he looks like he didn't know she was about to take the picture. His car looks old. And his clothes tell a story of what time they were living in.the mans wrinkles probably ages him to about in his forties maybe. Like he has had a hard life and is concerned.
This is a picture of Dorothea Lange. Shes sitting with one of her camera's what looks like on top of a car. She looks happy but also tired.I like this picture because it seems like its really her. That maybe she really was a happy person who had a lot going on. To me her eyes kind of seem like there not saying all that is going on.
I like this picture. It shows how life was for them. Which is what Dorothea tried to capture in her pictures during the depression. I think the little boy is kind of sad looking, maybe he could be bored, because the little girl isn't even paying attention she seems to be looking of into the distance. But other than all of these little things i like how the wood kind of frames them into the picture.


Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, May 26,1895. When she was just seven she was diagnosed with Polio. With this she developed a permanent limp leg. When she was 12 her father abandoned her and her mother.
She joined photography first off in New York City. When she became more experienced she turned her photography to the streets. It was the time of the depression. She documented and captured the suffering of the people who were living at the time. One of her most famous pictures is called the "Migrant Woman."
People began to notice her work. Which led her to her employment with the FSA.
She documented what life was like for the people living around her. She also took pictures to document such as one of her pictures is of a sign that says " I Am An American."
Dorothea received the Guggenheim Fellowship award. But when she took up the War Relocation Authority assignment she was forced to give up her reward. She documented the Japanese Americans on their way to the camp. For many her pictures were shocking. The Army impounded many of her picture's from the Manzanar camp.
Dorothea was offered a position by Ansel Adams at the school of California Fine arts. She co-founded the magazine Aperture.
Dorothea Lange died of cancer on October 11,1965. Dorothea accomplished much in her life time and her pictures still live on today. She documented some of the most important events of history. Dorothea's pictures are of reality which I think is important because today so many of our pictures aren't real they have so much done to them.