Styles, Themes and Techniques of Dorethea Lange And Steve McCurry
There are photographers on the planet however are just two that stood apart the most. Dorothea and Steve are two astounding photographers that have different styles of photography. Dorothea particularly centres on pictures identifying with the Great Depression during the 1930s as Steve centres on pictures identifying with catching representations about various people around the globe and how they live. Dorothea Lange is an American photographer, born on the 29th of May 1895 in Hoboken New Jersey and passed on the nineteenth of October 1965. She was taught in photography in New York City by a man named 'Clarence H. White'. Dorothea investigated the topics identifying with vagrancy and the Great Depression which made her photography classified as 'Historical'. She utilizes materials and strategies, for example, a Graflex camera and a 'Press' Camera. Steve McCurry is additionally an American photographer born in Pennsylvania on the 23th of April 1950 and is now 69 years of age. He attended school at the College of Art and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Steve worked in a newspaper factory for a long time before moving to India to do independent work, he now primarily works for the National Geographic. He investigated topics identifying with individuals' lives far and wide explicitly on how they live or the minutes that are critical to them that is the reason his photography is classified as 'cultural’. Steve has been featured in each significant magazine for his photography. Also more notable, he is most well-known for the picture he took in Afghanistan called the 'Afghan Girl' which comprised a representation of a 12 year old Afghan with green eyes. He utilized various materials and procedures contrasted (very different) with Dorothea, for example, utilizing Natural Lighting, Portraiture and the Rules of Thirds.
One of Dorothea's most well-known photographs taken is titled as 'Migrant Mother'. It was taken in Nipomo which is a small town in California, USA. In the photograph it shows a Mother with two children and a baby child. The facial expressions that are photographed with the Mother and two children clearly shows that they are feeling terrible, explicitly being 'depressed' in view of it being set during the Great Depression. From my viewpoint, the stressed face the mother shows symbolizes about agonizing over what's to come. The grimy garments and the tent they are in most likely symbolizes vagrancy and poverty. As Dorothea depicted the Mother's circumstance 'She and her children had been living on frozen vegetables from the field and wild birds the children caught. The pea crop had frozen; there was no work. Yet they could not move on, for she had just sold the tires from the car to buy food'. As said before, Steve McCurry's most well-known picture titled as 'The Afghan Girl'. In the photograph it captures a picture of a 12 old Afghanistan Girl gazing at camera. The photograph was taken at a refugee camp along the Afghan-Pakistan outskirt. This clarifies the torn clothes that she wore and the grimy face. The face the girl made in the photograph resembled that she was confused and timid. Confused being because as Steve said, 'I guess she was as curious about me as I was about her, because she had never been photographed and had probably never seen a camera '. Her face showed worriedness and sadness because of what was happening at the time of the photograph.
What was similar to both images were that it was taken by one person. In spite of the fact that the differences exceed the similarities with the materials and systems utilized in the two photographs. Two of the photographs had a big year difference between one another about when the photograph was set which implied that two of the pictures were taken with two different cameras because of the upgrade of technology from the years of 1936 to 1984. The kinds of photographs that Dorothea shoots could be known as a journalistic style, also called 'Photojournalism' because of the use of accessible light and taking photographs without the people in the photograph realizing that they would have been shot. Instances of Candid photography can resemble wedding photographs. The camera that Dorothea uses was a single lens reflex, a Graflex. The Graflex were more precise for forming intimate photographs than the speed Graflex despite the fact that the typical Graflex that she used was heavy and required a lot of stamina to be able to carry it with her all day. Howver, these camera delivered very good Black and White pictures in the hands of a good photographer as coloured photographs were not possible during that time. It has been a long time since the Migrant Mother photograph was taken, technology has improved by a lot even with cameras having the option to take photographs with full shading unlike when the Afghan Girl photograph was taken. It doesn't state what camera Steve used to snap the picture in spite of the fact that you can see a couple of procedures that he did. In the photograph you can see that he used a touch of natural light since it was taken in an exposed tent. He jumps at the chance to take photographs with a style of Portraiture and rule of thirds. He prefers to do Candid Photography like Dorothea. From how Steve shot the photograph of the young lady he took it with no context and not saying anything to the young lady. The young lady didn't recognize what was occurring as she has never been captured and has never even observed a camera.
Many standards and components were acquainted with both of these photographs. The Migrant Mother photograph didn't have much hues aside from highly contrasting dissimilar to The Afghan Girl which had many hues displayed in the photograph. Not much line was exhibited but rather there were some similar to the shirt the Migrant Mother was wearing and the hair from both photo in spite of the fact that there was a couple of surface given just as tone. I could see a touch of surface originating from the filthy and harsh garments the mother and two children were wearing and the tore apparel the afghan young lady was wearing. Tone was demonstrated a great deal particularly in the photo from Dorothea as a result of the photograph being high contrast and making the shadows to stand despite the fact that I couldn't see much shape originating from the two photos. I could see that there were a touch of standards originating from the two photos. I could see parity and difference from the Migrant mother and Afghan Girl.
If you think very deeply with these photos, you can see there are many representative references and messages between these two photographs. Dorothea is most well-known for shooting photography identifying with the Great Depression. The Great Depression was one of the most awful occasions in America that included poverty and vagrancy, it was what Dorothea was going for and no more. The Migrant Mother symbolized Poverty, homelessness and despair. The photo turned into the famous photograph of the Depression. From what Dorothea stated, they had nothing. She didn't know where the children’s father went, he likely kicked the bucket or something more awful than that. Evidently during that time there was no assistance, security and work. From what Dorothea recalled that, she heard the mother saying 'We just existed'. That short saying felt like that the Mother didn't think about their own reality like it wasn't an essentialness that they were alive. As of now stated, Steve McCurry works for the National Geographic and sent him to takes photographs from displaced person camps along the Afghan-Pakistan outskirt. The word outcast isn't something to be upbeat about as it identifies with a ton of discussion. When you investigate increasingly about displaced people and what cause and impacts of it, it's extremely miserable. The Afghan Girl symbolizes poverty and homelessness too. Bunches of things were going on in Afghanistan that caused a ton of controversy around the globe. At the point when Steve approached to the young lady, she didn't say a word since that she was shy and lack of knowledge on what was happening. She was wearing worn out clothes too which implied that she was unstable with her money.
Dorothea and Steve are stunning photographers with their various styles of themes and techniques that they had that make them astounding. The stories behind each photo were inspiring. Heaps of components and standards were exhibited which made the photos stunning. They had various approaches to recount to every photo story and various approaches to shape their stunning photography. It's dismal to see that stuff like this happens in some cases on the planet we live in and an approach to introduce these kind of stuff were to photograph it and I feel that these two photographers did it better than anyone else.
