Dorothea Lange color: photography
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Dorothea Lange color: photography Details
About the Author Neil Scott-Petrie is a creative art director, commercial artist and photographer based in London UK. Read more
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An attempt to profiteer riding the coat tails of a master. I strongly object to the colorization of Lange's work, but this is also very poorly done. The color is exaggerated to the extent that everyone pictured, including the children, look like they are wearing heavy make up. Yes the world was in color back then, but it didn't look at all like this.View this work in its stunning original form and learn about Lange through the Library of Congress website loc.gov and by accessing the many good books on Lange by respected scholars including Elizabeth Partridge, Linda Gordon, and Milton Meltzer. There also were select FSA photographers, such as Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott, who made some amazing images using color film. You can also view that work on the Library of Congress site [...]
