Research 1
Dorothea Lange Aaron Siskind The two photographers Dorothea Lange and Aaron Siskind pursuings difference themes in photography. Dorothea best known for her works of capturing people's life in the countryside. The photography tries to emphasis on people's emotion during the Great depression time. Aaron works are about capturing the details of things in nature and daily life. Things that people hardly pays attention on. Dorothea Lange focuses on people's portraits and human's expression. Most of her pictures only capture the face, there are not much going on in the picture, only the natural expression of a person. This effect helps her to evoke emotion and represents sadness during the Great depression. Aaron Siskind focuses on zooming in to a subject with two dimensional surface that shows graphic pattern, shape and details. This effect of zooming helps his work to be non-representative and abstract. The tiny details can be seen with a different view point and be mo
