Dorothea Lange: Remedy from the Great Depression

Sometimes people undervalue the importance and seriousness of depression, saying that it is not a fatal disease like cancer or AIDS. However, all people experience this feeling during their life. Every person has his/her own ways of fighting against depression, but what to do if it grew to the scale of pandemic and affected the whole nation as the Great Depression in the USA did. Though there is no medicine against it, but the photos of Dorothea Lange became one of the ingredients that helped people to get over that difficult time.


Dorothea Lange was born in 1895. She became known for the most prominent and influential documentary photography of those days. Her photos of the Great Depression were the remedy to make people to recover from that awful blow of destiny. Perhaps, you also felt the devastating power of depression that corroded your soul and poisoned your living. You can plunge into writing term paper to abstract from your thoughts or, at contrary, put aside your writing term paper and do whatever you like. However, Dorothea Lange didn’t try to make the ruined world look brighter or happier because you can’t see any joy or happiness on her photos . The consequences of the Great depression, exhausted people, crying children and sad mothers are shown there .Dorothea Lange wanted people to awoke, face the reality and pull themselves together. However, her photos are full of love and sympathy, that’s why, they urged people on fighting and standing up from their knees.

 

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