Dorothea Lange: The migrant mother
Introduction
Who was Dorothea Lange? He was born in 1895, at 7 years he suffered from polyomyelitis, and due to the treatments of the time he grew very weakened and with serious feet malformations. Devastating consequences for a girl, but who did not bloc her at any time. Although his first approach to photography was because of the most purist current, he decidedpainter). As a general rule, the photographers at that time did not leave their study, and it was the people who went to sessions or to portray.
Developing
Professionals preferred to have controlled the environment (lights and shadows, wind, background) to be able to do their job well. But with North America in the great depression, Lange did not see it that way, I felt that I should portray real life, what people were suffering, and went out to capture what they found in the streets: unemployed and homeless people, poverty and misery. Between 1935 and 1937 Lange worked for official departments, always having as protagonists in their photos of poor and marginalized, especially peasants, displaced families and immigrants. Distributed without cost to national newspapers.
His photos became icons of the era and won the nickname of the town’s photographer. Who better to describe her work than herself, then simply explains how she saw her photography, and why she did what she did: «My approach is based on three considerations: first of all: hands outside! What I photograph, do not disturb it or modify it or fix it. Second, a sense of the place. What I photograph, I try to represent it as part of its environment, as rooted in it. Third, a sense of time. What I photograph, I try to show it as a given position, either in the past or in the present."
The migrant mother: we are in the great depression an economic crisis that extended all over the world. Within the United States, in cities, businessmen, bankers and stock market investors were committed to it because they had lost everything and could not deal with their debts, and in rural areas, farmers and ranchers were the most harmed., Where our protagonist Dorothea Lange takes out this photo, which becomes the living image of poverty and suffering of that time. This image retains a certain resemblance to Madonnas or virgins with a child, from Christian art, a theme of the Renaissance in the Middle Ages. Try to convey.
conclusion
Mother’s concern. But more than that the mother is an icon of the American people, who emigrated within the country itself in not very good conditions. Lange thus represented the precariousness of the situation in which millions of people were in the United States. The photo is taken in black and white of the time, and we find the mother and three children a close -up, the mother has a not very cheerful expression, since if we look at the context in which it is made, miredIn despair and poverty. She transmits a sensation, as if you were seeing it in reality, a strange feeling, as if you were bumping from the mother for what she is living.
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