lecture 8
Dorothea Lange
American photographer who recorded the Great Depression by taking pictures of the unemployed and rural poor. Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography she captured the desperate condition of the people in great depression she was a member of the photo-secession group Creator ; Dorothea Lange Title; Migrant Mother Date ; 1936 Description; The Migrant Mother series from Lange's studies of farm workers Subject Dorothea Lange Artwork description & Analysis: Probably the most famous of Lange's photographs, the description she wrote of her encounter with Florence Owens Thompson reveals that it left a deep impression on her. "I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tyres from her car to buy food. 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... I knew that I had recorded the essence of my assignment." 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.
Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971)
Creator Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971) Culture American Title 'Gargoyle, Chrysler Building, New York' Date 1929-1930 Material gelatin silver print Margaret Bourke-White was a woman of firsts: the first photographer for Fortune, the first Western professional photographer permitted into the Soviet Union, Life magazine's first female photographer, and the first female war correspondent credentialed to work in combat zones during World War II. The Prints & Photographs Division has a limited number of her photographs but the Library of Congress holds extensive resources for research about Bourke-White and her life. Bourke-White's personal papers External link, along with photographic proofs of her work, are housed at the Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, New York. The rights to nearly all of her images are held by the TIME-LIFE organization, and reproduction can be expensive.
migatory cotton picker
Creator Dorothea Lange, North American; American, Born: US, NJ, Hoboken, 1895, Died: US, CA, San Francisco, 1965 Title Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona Work Type Photographs Date 1940 Material gelatin silver print
interior detail, west virginia coal miner's house
Creator Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 Title Interior detail, West Virginia Coal Miner's House. Date 1935 Subject Photography--20th C. A.D
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer Title Wooden Church, South Carolina
Creator Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer Title Wooden Church, South Carolina Date 1936 Location United States Subject America South Carolina Photography--20th C. A.D Churches--United States
ditched , stalled and stranded
Creator Lange, Dorothea Title Ditched, Stalled and Stranded San Joaquin Valley, CA Date 1935 Subject Migrant agricultural laborers Photography--20th C. A.D couples steering wheels Artwork description & Analysis: In this picture, Lange is able to capture a striking look of anxiety on the face of her subject. Stranded in his car, the man's plight suggests the larger problems that society faced during the Great Depression. To add to the feeling of claustrophobia, Lange purposely cropped the photograph into a tighter composition, which originally included a woman sitting in the passenger's seat. Rather than suggesting he pose, Lange has caught him as if unawares, an effect which persuades us all the more of the truth of the image.
toward los angeles
Creator Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965) Female Culture American Title Toward Los Angeles Work Type Photography Date 1937 (March)
lewis hine
Creator Lewis W. Hine Title Adolescent Girl, a Spinner, in a Carolina Cotton Mill Work Type Photographs Date 1908 Material Gelatin silver print Measurements
Man on girders
Creator Lewis W. Hine (American, 1874-1940) Title Man on girders, mooring mast, Empire State building Date ca. 1931 Material gelatin silver print Description Inscription: verso-(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings-. on-Hudson, New York". (in pencil) "E1" "617" during the 1930's while the empire state building was being built lewis hine photographed men actually workers who had scarificed their skills and lives to build the empire state building. a deadly yet courageous job
girl worker in carolina cotton mill
Creator Lewis W. Hine (American, 1874-1940) Title : Girl worker in Carolina Cotton Mill Date : 1908 Material: gelatin silver print
march of the dynamos
Creator Margaret Bourke-White, North American; American, Born: US, NY, New York, 1904, Died: US, CT, Stamford, 1971 Title March of the Dynamos Work Type Photographs Date 1928 Location US, NY, Niagara Falls a machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; a generator. force or power
walker evans breakfast room
Creator Walker Evans, North American; American, 1903 - 1975, (photographer), Title Breakfast Room at Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana Work Type Photographs Date 1935 Material gelatin silver print
title : graveyard houses and steel mill 1935 walker evans
Creator Walker Evans, North American; American, 1903 - 1975, (photographer), Title Graveyard, Houses, and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Work Type Photographs Date 1935 Material gelatin silver print the graveyard. and the industries while the center shows people homes has a sense of togetherness . a picture of the community . a type of documentary style.
"Roadside Stand near Birmingham, Alabama"
Creator: Walker Evans, North American; American, Born: US, MO, St. Louis, 1903, Died: US, CT, New Haven, 1975 Title: Roadside Stand, vicinity Birmingham, Alabama, 1936 Work Type : Photographs Date; 1936 Location US, AL, Birmingham Material gelatin silver print roadside stand . conveys no emotion. there are many details shown and symmetry. vertical repetition.
Walker Evans
FSA photographer that depicted life among sharecroppers in rural Alabama Photographer that photographed the impoverished during the Great Depression
Lewis Hine
One of his most important and famous commissions was to photograph all stages of construction of the Empire State Building. This task added another dangerous aspect to Hine's career; he would hang from cherry-pickers, balancing 100 stories high to achieve certain aerial views. He would swing out beyond the building to photograph and gather information of workers within the structure. Selected images from the culmination of these projects eventually became Men at Work, an excellent, pioneering picture book. Hine also focused his camera on working conditions of women during the 1920s and 1930s. He photographed women in the workplace for the cover of Western Electric News, a famous series called the Shelton Loom Series. In addition, Hine photographed housewives; he believed, the homemaker deserves recognition as one of our workers. The early 1930s marked our country's greatest depression, and Hine so desperately wanted to take part with Roy Stryker, who led the FSA project of documenting the people of the depression, but was repeatedly denied. One reason may be that Hine never relinquished ownership or rights of his negatives.Photographer who used his pictures to draw attention to social problems such as child labor and the poor living conditions of immigrants in New York City.famous photographer during the progressive area. He is the most well known for his haunting photographs of young workers in city slums during that time.
Life Magazine
Photographic journal starting in 1936 had largest reader group in US. It had some articles on politics and economics, but it was known for photos of sports and theater, natural landscapes and public projects. A popular feature was "Life goes to a party" showing the rich and famous. A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name
creator Lewis W. Hine (American, 1874-1940) Title Ellis Island Italian Madonna Date 1905 Material gelatin silver print Measurements
ellis island italian madonna
icarus lewis hine
the title icarus a son of a famous craftsman Creator Lewis Hine, American, 1874-1940 Title: icarus, Empire State Building Date : 1930 Location : Depicted: United States of America, New York, New York Material: Gelatin silver print
