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Wednesday 1 September 2010

Dorothea Lange: That Was Then


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Image, Source: intermediary roll film

The day after the election, November 12, 1936, Oakland, California: photo by Dorothea Lange (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The composition of this Lange photo suggests so many possible story lines.

TC said...

Yes, so much can be read into it.

The once broad range of human expression and gesture, "in public"...

But that was then.