Dorothea Lange Photo

This is a very powerful photograph which gives you an idea of the suffering of Americans during the Great Depression. It shows despair of a woman in her thirties and her two children. It provokes a feeling of uneasiness when you see it

Dorothea Lange

I searched for more of Dorothea Lange's photos of the Great Depression, and they were all indeed depressing. Not a single person on her photos seemed happy. Even the photo of nobody but just an empty road, called The Road West looked sad. It's amazing how one could feel the common atmosphere during the period by looking at just a few of her photos. Maybe it's the black and white colors. Maybe anybody could have taken photos of the everyday life of the time and they would still show the same thing.

By the way, the subject of the famous Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson, was actually 32 years old at the time the photo was taken, which is still pretty younger than how she looks in the photo.

Dorothea Lange Photography

Today we talked about 1930's great depresion our teacher showed us a photo of a woman who seems very depressed and concerned about her life and her children, I found that her photographer was Dorothea Lange who became famous being a documentary photographer. I'm impress on how she managed to capture every feeling on the pictures that I searched on the internet, the one that I like the most wast the cover of her book restless spirit because she could capture a depressed kid who seems very concern about his life style, and personally I think that the most difficult thing is to capture a deep emotion like that in a kid.

6th.july.2010

Dear diary.

I felt like I was in a steam machine all day long. I had never been in extremely hot weather like today. My coundtry also has 4 seasons and in summer it is hot, but today's weather drove me crazy! I couldn't open my eyes because of the strong sunshine and if I had stood under the sun for 10 minutes, my skin would have gotten burn. I had to look for shadow at all time.
I know that many people love hot weather and always want to be under the sunshine, but I don't think I'm that kind of person. Usually, when someone asked me which weather I liked the most, I always couldn't choose one between winter and summer. However now I can choose one! I love winter!! and I don't believe in Summer loving anymore! but if someone brings me a nice air conditioner, I might fell in love with that person indoors.

5th.july.2010

Dear diary.

I love independence day!
I love fireworks, red, blue and white colored icecream, concerts, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin franklin etc, if something is related to independence day, I love it.
Because I enjoyed my time with my friends a lot yesterday. Eventhough the weather was incredibly hot and people from all over the world came to the art museum and blocked all the streets and made me tired, it was awesome.
Unfortunately that was my first and maybe last independence day in the U.S, but I'll celebrate this holiday alone in my country from next year.
In my country, it is not common that all of the people gather to celebrate our national holidays. When we gather like yesterday, the purpose is to cheer our national sports team at the World cup game or the Olypic games. So I was very new for me and I was impressed.

2nd.july.2010

Dear diary.

The begining of the long weekend was normal. I'm trying to save my energy to enjoy fireworks on sunday. After today's class, my friends and I ate lunch together and came home and took a nap. As usual, I exercised and also saw rabbits.

1st.july.2010

I went clubbing today. The club was Philly club in Kaplan!! I'm kind of a phillyclubphile, because I like walking around and looking around philadelphia. I don't remember when I started to join philly club, but I almost always join it.
Today, we went to the old city. The old city looked really old, and I could find the early year of philadelphia in the middle of the city. I'm not a historical person but whenever I see old things, I feel relieved and happy even if I don't have no idea about the things. I spent a great time in the club as usual, moreover the weather was perfect so I could enjoy the lovely day completely.