Illustration About Dorothea Lange

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February 5, 2013 Writing Skills (Illustration) One of the most important figures that appeared during the 1960´s was Dorothea Lange, known for her work by humanizing the consequences of the great depression and influential development of documentary photography. In this paper I’m going to express what does one of Dorothea Lange’s pictures express to me. In the middle of such tough moments we can see through Dorothea’s camera a boy hugging his little sister, the only person that seems to be there with him, protecting her ,and giving her some affection, while the world seems to be the worst place to be in that minute. I can feel the resignation that they had in that moment, that innocence that they reflect with their little sad faces wanting, wishing, and hoping all to finish. I can perceive the depression; I can be able to feel what do all people felt in that time, what does the great depression was. I can see the sense of family that this little boy is giving to her sister, he is keeping her faith inside, he is telling her that no matter what happens tomorrow, he is with her, and he is going to be with her always, that won’t change even in the most difficult moments. That lends us to think what would we have done if we had to pass through these kinds of situations? Would we have been able to handle it? Would we have been able to maintain the faith in these moments in which loose the hope is the only thing that seems right? To conclude this picture reflects those horrible moments that all people in 1960’s went through, it show us by these two little people all the sadness, despair, and hopeless that they had to suffer. In times were there was no trail of a sunny day. Dorothea Lange (“The Big Brother”) August

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