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when peter and michelle go to prom, i can just envision him showing up in a rented tuxedo at her apartment two hours early all nervous and her mom answers the door and she’s literally sitting on the couch eating potato chips and watching old sci fi shows in sweatpants like “oh that was today?? give me a minute”

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Unica in English meaning "unique" is a bold font with normal kerning. This font is peculiar because of its curved ends. It is a mixture of serif and sans-serif because it has both fancy curved ends and plain ones. Unica has a rare and different vibe which is why it is the best font for posters which try to display abstract art.

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Love these ladies

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Deep

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extending far down from the top or surface.

very intense or extreme.

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Name: Dorathea Lange

Date Of Birth: May 26, 1895

Place Of Birth: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: October 11, 1965

Place Of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Dorothea Lange self potrait, 1895-1965

Brief Biography: Born to second generation German immigrants Heinrich Nutzhorn and Johanna Nutzhorn on May 26, 1895, at 1041 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, Dorothea Lange’s birth name was Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn (Encyclopædia Britannica). She dropped her middle name after her parents divorced and took her mother’s maiden name (Wikipedia). She graduated from the Wadleigh High School for Girls and started to study photography at Columbia University in New York City (Encyclopædia 

Britannica). In 1920, she married western painter Maynard Dixon.With him, she had two sons, Daniel, born in 1925, and John, born in 1930 (Wikipedia). In December 1935, she divorced Type to enter text Dixon and married economist Paul Schuster Taylor, a professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley (Wikipedia). The couple traveled to many places over the next five years and together, they documented rural hardship they came across for the Farm Security Administration, established by the U.S. Agriculture Department (Biography). In 1940, Lange became the first woman awarded a Guggenheim fellowship (Biography).Throughout her years, Dorothea Lange has successfully expressed issues and events that have greatly affected people throughout the great depression. She will forever be remembered as one of history’s greatest photographers.

-About her work Dorathea Lange was a photographer whose portraits focused on displaced farmers during the Great Depression (Encyclopædia Britannica). She used her camera to express the issues and topics that affected her society during the great depression. Her photographs mainly focused on expressing the pain, suffering and depression of the people during the great depression.Her main theme is social realism. She worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during her lifetime as a photographer (Wikipedia). She traveled around with her second husband and they recorded the he conditions of workers living in poverty-stricken areas of the West coast, the South and the Midwest, including the camps that resulted from the Dust Bowl migration.  (Encyclopædia Britannica). The photographer has spoken about her experience taking one of her most famous work:

I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food.There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it (Popular Photography, Feb.1960).

A lot of people respected and admire Dorothea Lange. Numerous individuals praised the way she captured her images. One example is Linda Gordon, who wrote a book on the photographer called “Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits”. Gordon tells NPR’s Steve Ins-keep “She really understood that the ability to see does not come from your eye; it comes from your brain”(THE DUST BOWL: A Film By Ken Burns).

Award/ Recognition: In 1941, Dorothea Lange received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada (Wikipedia).After The Pearl Harbour event, she gave up the award to record the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

Examples Of Their Work:

Lange’s 1933, White Angel Bread, San Francisco

Dorothea Lange, [Children of the Weill public school. …], April 1942, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Lange’s 1936,Migrant Mother,Florence Owens Thompson, Nipoma, California

-Critique

Man Beside Wheelbarrow. 1934. Dorothea Lange, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.

Describe This is a long shot image with a straight on angle. I observe a man sitting on a brick with his arms supporting his shoulders. His head is covered There is a wheelbarrow next to the man I see the elements of design, shape (everything that is not negative shape), value (the black and white shade). I see only black and white and no colours.

Analyze There is no colour only white and black in this picture because it is meant to look like an old picture. The clothes the man is wearing also proves this speculation. The principle of design value is used to differentiate the different objets in this photograph like the man and the wheelbarrow. The pose of the man creates a depressing aura.

Interpret I think this photo is a mixture of candid and conceptual photography. Candid because it seems like the subject is not aware that the picture is being taken. Conceptual because even though the subject is the main focus, the picture seems to hold more to it. A message is trying to be communicated through it.This message I think is social realism.   I think the photographer was trying to capture a realistic moment/event which we see in our everyday life. This makes sense as this image was taking during the great depression. Not what we see in propagandas which display life as perfect but the actual realistic and negative events that we and someone else go through

Decide More than liking this picture, I believe I respect the photographer’s style. I like the fact that she used her camera to capture the hash truth which the media or government don’t want to address during the great depression. I don’t think there is anything I would want to change about this photo. This is because this picture shows nothing but the truth. So overall, this photo does not deserve any negative criticism from me.

                                             Work Citation

"Dorothea Lange." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 16 Nov. 2016. Web. 08 Feb. 2017. "Dorothea Lange." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.

The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Dorothea Lange." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 18 Dec. 2014. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.

"THE DUST BOWL: A Film By Ken Burns." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2017. <http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/bios/dorothea-lange/>.

Morning Edition. "Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of Desolation." NPR. NPR, 28 Apr. 2010. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.

"Dorothea Lange Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works." The Art Story. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.

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Exercise one and two fav pics

My picture contains three tall buildings which are coloured grey-ish blue, white-ish yellow and maroon. The buildings are connected to each other. There are many windows. There are also signs placed .I think I took this picture because of the way the buildings are displayed. When I look at this picture, I quickly think of downtown.This is what I like about this photo. It clearly displays downtown.The use of dull colours makes it look like downtown. The way they are arranged make them look like they belong there. Both the colours and arrangements make the buildings go in harmony.

This is a picture of the stair railings outside. I took this photo to display abstract art and I think it does so pretty well. The railings contain metal pieces that are the shape of a circle. The colour of the metals are silver while the colour of the railing is black. I think The metal pieces are there to make it more attrative.The patterns attract the viewers.The use of silver makes the metal shine in a way that makes even such simple object as railings appear interesting. I think I took this picture  because of the way it looks so simple yet so interesting, therefore why this is one of my favourite pic

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Harmony

Lines

Colour

Contrast

Balance

Texture

Value

Space

shape

Movement

Emphasis,.....red bottle

Proportion 

pattern

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