dorthea lange photographer. who is the artist? dorthea lange
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Dorthea Lange Photographer
Migrant Mother
What is her
Medium?
Migrant Mother
What is her
Medium?
Photography
What is photography?
• Photography is art using a camera.
Biography
• At age 7 Dorthea developed polio, which weakened her leg and caused her to walk with a limp.
• She believed that her disability was the most important influence on her character.
• Later Dorthea learned photography in New York, and opened her own portrait studio in San Francisco.
• Dorthea Lange was a renowned for her photojournalist work during the Great Depression. She photographed rural poverty and brought awareness to issues going on in the Great Depression.
Where is did the artist live?
Where did the artist live?
• The USA
• She was born in New Jersey but she later
moved to San Francisco
When was she alive?
When was she alive?
• 1895-1965
• During her life– the TV was invented– Tom and Jerry, Mickey Mouse, and Bugs
Bunny were created– There were 2 World Wars
ApertureDorthea Lange was one of the photographers who founded the photographic magazine, Aperture.
Vocabulary
LineFormSpaceValueColor
EmphasisMovement
Composition
Photography
When the camera puts the picture on the film, it makes a negative.
The real picture shows up when you print it on
paper.
Photography as an art form communicates ideas and feelings.
Photographers use the same design elements and principles as other artists use to communicate
ideas and feelings.
Photographers use Lines
• Line is a dot that moves from one point to another
Photography uses FormForm is a 3D closed area.
Photography has FormWhat kinds of form do you see?
Photographers use SpaceSpace is the area around. Describe this space.
Cotton
Photographers use Value
Value changes from light, medium and dark based on the amount of light in the picture. What kinds of values do you see in this picture?
Photographers use Color
Photographers use Emphasis
Emphasis is the strongest area of the composition,
where all the attention goes.
What is the emphasis in this
picture?
Child in Mississippi Delta
Photographers use Movement
How can a photographer create movement?
Child Labor in Onion Field
Why is Dorthea Lange important?
Migrant Agricultural workers family, 1936
Why is Dorthea Lange important? She took photos of the Great Depression
Migrant Agricultural workers family, 1936
Conclusion
Who did you study? Dorthea LangeWhat did she do? Dorthea Lange was a
photographer and a photojournalist. She is most known for her work
during the Great Depression.When was she alive? 1895-1965Where did she learn how to take pictures? In New
York she took classes from famous photographers, and later opened a portrait studio in San Francisco.
