1. Photographer Dorothea Lange
Media 175
Principals of Digital Photography
Photographer Dorothea Lange
Presented by Kari Larson
January 17th, 2015

2. Dorothea Lange May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965
Dorothea Lange was a photojournalist during the Great Depression and is best known for her work during that time.

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Lange began as a portrait photographer in San Francisco, she was shocked by the number of homeless people and took their pictures to draw attention to their predicament.

4. Her most prominent pictures were taken when she was employed by the Farm Security Administration.
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5. Her most famous photograph is “Migrant Mother” “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet… There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.” She said of the experience.
Photo by Dorothea Lange

6. To be good, photographs have to be full of the world. - Dorothea Lange
Photo by Dorothea Lange
To be good, photographs have to be full of the world. - Dorothea Lange

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8. She also took photos of the Japanese Interment during WWII
Photo by Dorothea Lange

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. -Dorothea Lange

11. The End
Photo by Dorothea Lange
This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
– Dorothea Lange

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