Dorothea Lang
Dorothea Lang is best known for her chronicles of the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, Dorothea Lang photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Her photographs of migrant workers were often presented with captions featuring the words of the workers themselves. Therefore, those who viewed the photographs by Dorothea got a first hand perspective of what life really was like in the Great Depression. As seen above in the 3 photographs, you catch of glimpse of this woman's life, and what she had dealt with. You see the struggle in the lines of her face, and the weight and ache on her shoulders in the first picture. You sympathize her situation, which is what Dorothea was trying to bring light on. In the second picture, you see the living standards for a family of five. The dishevelment of the children, and the tiredness portrayed by them is very evident. The 'kicked to the side' suitcase, represents what the family has left. Which is close to nothing. The makeshift house, gives insight to this woman's life and how hard it must've been to provide for her family. The final picture shows even the most vulnerable human beings-babies-struggled in the Great Depression. This baby didn't get any of the care and treatments many do today. This baby was exposed to one of the worst times of our economy, and it is shown on the mothers face, just how much it affected her.
Lewis Hine
Lewis Hine is known for taking photographs of child labor. He believed that a picture could tell a powerful story and he felt so strongly about child labor, and the abuse of children as workers, he quit his job to persue a career in investigative photography for National Child Labor Committee. Hine traveled around the country photographing the working conditions of children in all types of industries. As shown above, Hine has captured children that should be in school educating them selves the basics, in industries that now only adults can ever step foot in to work. He's captured the states at the time of work, and it is evident by the distress on their faces that they are over worked and should not be in such an environment. He believed in not retouching any of these pictures, to show 100% harsh facts to his audience. In which I believe he achieved in his goal of educating the people through his photography. He has successfully shown that these children are too young to work extensive laborous hours, and this helps the view sympathize for these children.
Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady is well known for his documentation of the Civil War. He and his employees photographed thousands of images including battlefields, camp life, and portraits of many of the famous people during his time. Through his photographs, he has shocked many to their cores as to how destructive the war was to the people, and left a tremendous impact, both then and today. In his photographs you see average men, living in terrible conditions, and being carted off due to their injuries and sometimes even death. The lying injured and dead brought many home to the terrible reality of war. In the last image, it seems as if there are just a bunch of men sitting together on a normal day, but the closer you look, you see the carnage left on them. Many have lost limbs due to the war, and are left as nothing. Which is what war usually does. Mathew successfully documented the harsh reality of war through the pictures he had photographed and commissioned.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge played a huge role for photography due to his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion projection. He caught a simple action in many shots to emphasis all the different postures and steps it takes to complete an action. Through fast shutters he was able to succeed at showing the set of motions through photography.
Camera Simulation
Picture #1: This is a freeze frame photograph in which the moving object appears to be frozen. This is achieved by increasing the shutter speed by 1/640 to capture the movement of the photograph quickly. Since the shutter speed is going so fast, minimal light will be let in, therefore a larger aperture is needed. Which is then changed to f/3.5.