This beautiful, beautiful woman is Dorothea Lange. During her lifetime, she was a photographer, a pioneer in photojournalism. After years of running a successful portraiture studio, she gave it up after attending a workers' street rally and concluding that what she photographed was out of sync with what mattered. Relying on friends to help her care for her children, she traveled throughout middle America, documenting the camps of Dust Bowl refugees, photographing sharecroppers and migrant worker families. She shot worker strikes and rallies, and later photographed the forced evacuation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She viewed her medium as an opportunity to bring the human condition into full view. The more I read about her, the more I fall in love with her.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Dorothea Lange
This beautiful, beautiful woman is Dorothea Lange. During her lifetime, she was a photographer, a pioneer in photojournalism. After years of running a successful portraiture studio, she gave it up after attending a workers' street rally and concluding that what she photographed was out of sync with what mattered. Relying on friends to help her care for her children, she traveled throughout middle America, documenting the camps of Dust Bowl refugees, photographing sharecroppers and migrant worker families. She shot worker strikes and rallies, and later photographed the forced evacuation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She viewed her medium as an opportunity to bring the human condition into full view. The more I read about her, the more I fall in love with her.
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