Iconic Photographer Photo Project

Dorothea Lange

For this project I decided to use Dorothea Lange as my favorite photographer, her images about the unfortunate circumstances about the people of America during the great depression shows the human ability to try to overcome and live, all the while suffering from poverty and isolation. While that itself is incredibly heart wrenching to watch, I think that the background of these photos tells us much more about just how dry and arid both the land and the emotions of some people can be. She brilliantly captures all these aspects and more in the Midwest, however she would later also capture the images of Japanese-American citizens during their internment after pearl harbor, much of work focuses on capturing the suffering and human strife between the 1930s to the 1940s.

Here are some pictures with my thoughts on them:

These more landscape photo shows us the hot and dry aspects that many people had to travel in the Midwest while also emphasizing the long and arduous journey they ahead of them to find some some kind of work.

These photos were taken during the Japanese internment operation after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I believe that they show a forced perspective and patriotisms that was put onto these children as well as a segregation of sorts.

My attempt in recreating the photographers style:

For replicating Dorothea's style I used family members and some what dry looking terrain. I couldn't quite capture the true desperation, sadness, and lack of any vegetation that was present during these times, and while I did try to, this becomes difficult when you not only live on a tropical island, but your family also doesn't really look like they belong in any setting of the sort.

:)