I guess they escaped out of the kitchen a long time ago and I thought it
happened in the 1960s when they cut their skirts short and started to drink beers with us lads in the pub.
When all these 'emancipated' women were screaming for equality, women
like
Dorothea
Lange had
already found it, many years before! She was one of
the first female commercial photographers in the world. Dorothea
photographed the '30s Great Depression' and successfully portrayed the
hunger and the desperation of the time. She is credited for being a
major influence in the development of documentary photography. Dorothea
left behind an enormous legacy and a fine body of photographic work!
I admire her tenacity, fortitude and photography. I am in good company,
Ansel Adams also admired her work and invited her to join the
Californian School of Fine Arts.
The migration period in the 1930s America must have been an 'endurance'
to test the metal of men, who were 'terrified' of being unable to feed
their families. Dorothea in her images in the video below, captures the
desolation!
Dorothea Lange
(1895-1965)
embodies
the 'spirit of photography'. In this ever changing world of 'human and
historical events' she went out and captured it, for all time!
See this video on YouTube about her life -
Dorothea
Lange
I am not to keen on the cover music by Judy Garland but the music from
Glenn Miller that follows it is most excellent.
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