Research Assignment 1

 Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) is an American photojournalist. Her pictures are black and white which best describe the sadness may have in the immigrants’ stories during the Great Depression. The composition in her photos is normally irregular. Her idea for the pictures stems from the Great Depression’s unemployed men wandered San Francisco’s streets by the time she was out of money also. Another inspiration for her was the migrant people that she lived with some time.    

Walker Evans

Walker Evans (1903-1975) is an American photographer. He had the same kind of pictures which is black and white, and the same irregular composition as Lange. However, instead of focus on people only, his pictures are variety. Therefore, his inspiration came from many things, too, like the essence of American life or subway portrait. 

Sources: 

1. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothea-Lange

2. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walker-Evans

3. https://photofocus.com/inspiration/on-photography-walker-evans-1903-1975/

4. https://www.vintag.es/2012/09/american-photographs-by-walker-evans.html

5. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/walker-evans-subway-portraits-new-york-1940-5479372-details.aspx