The Truth Is in the Photograph

Can you imagine the terrible living environment caused by drought in the American countryside during the Great Depression? "[Agriculture] has created something of life ... the industries, society and culture of that country are reflected both physically and psychologically." In 1930, in the first place in the eastern region It caused drought and arrived in South and Midwest USA by 1934. The cause of drought is low agricultural skills, farmers do excessive harvesting, planting, cultivating, livestock and sheep grazing and weakening the land.

The New York Times wrote that these pictures have "tremendous clarity" and they brought a sober and tragic reality of war to the north. Its focus is evident in the authenticity of the documentary and its art and literature, as well as its emotional and emotional habits, how this truth affects northern culture. Historians from Edmund Wilson to Drew, Gilpin, and Faust, the civil war was an epidemic of American cultural transformation and said from the way we write mourning rituals.

Pictures are not objective facts. The media is easy to operate as people tend to exaggerate, misunderstand, and have prejudice. However, because more and more intertwined with the country and the world situation, the Americans of the 19th century wants to look at the wider world, and promise of the photo does not have unparalleled in the recording and illustrations that have been documented. At that time, the press was still trying to integrate pictures into magazines and newspapers, but some companies are developing low priced photo antiques. One of the industry giants is a Detroit photography company and stands out by creating color prints called photochromism using technology licensed only by the company. From the late 1890s to the beginning of the 20th century publishers sold postcards ranging from landscape to industrial works, street scenes in New York City, and California missions.

Painter photographers have succeeded in gallery exhibitions and high-class publications. But by the beginning of the 20th century, photographers like Alfred Stiglitz, which was originally a painter, created this "straight" picture. Operation Stiglitz also tried purely abstract pictures of the clouds. Modernist and documentary photographers begin accepting media-specific precision rather than trying to create images that look like paintings.

One of the epoch-making photographs that apply to this statement is the mother of Dorothy Lange's immigrants and extensive discussion about the credibility of the photograph. Is it important to screen, edit and adjust this picture? The important thing is that even if it is a stepwise picture it is still communicating the reality at that time. Lange was dispatched for the farm security bureau to work to document the poverty of shared farmers. Her image-related story is not entirely correct, but in fact it shows the status of immigrant workers.