Dorothea Lange was born May 26, 1895, in New Jersey, United States and died October 11, 1965. She was very influential as an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. Dorothea is best known for her depression-era of work for the Farm Security Administration.
The pictures that she captured were very different to a any other photographer at that time, partly because of the type of pictures she captured were so real and weren't modeling for the shots. Here are some for you to look at which in some instances is described in the novel 'Of Mice and Men'.
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| Dorothea taking her pictures of the poverty and Great Depression. |
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| Supposed mother, looking in the distance totally unaware of her child. |
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| This picture is very interesting because the child is obviously hugging his mother for comfort but again this mother is totally unaware and isn't even looking at Dorothea Lange as she takes her photo. |
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| This photo gives a sense of what the depression was really like, the children too young to work so they are sitting in the shade on not even a proper chair. |
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| This man seems to be troubled in some way, maybe just exhausted, but again he takes no notice of his picture being taken. I personally believe he is praying for some comfort. |
I feel that these pictures Dorothea Lange has captured have a feeling of loneliness, otherwise known as 'Soledad' in Spanish meaning loneliness which is used in Of Mice and Men.
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