Yikes it isn't actually fun having to choose so few finalists, I went away and slept on it and the ones that stuck with me are here below and one of these people will be the host of the next artist challenge :)
voting will close Friday March 29
@kali66 thanks so much for choosing her :o) can't be easy at all making the decision - so many lovely entries - also thanks for organising this challenge and introducing me to a new way of thinking about photography
@aprilmilani hey April ... as I won by a toss of a coin I wondered if you would like to host the next challenge with me? I can see from your work you seem to have experience and perhaps knowledge of photographers which I lack ... let me know if you think the idea workable and I go from there :0)
Dorothea Lange born of second generation German immigrants on May 26, 1895. She was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. She her contraction of polio at age seven which left her with a weakened right leg and a permanent limp. "It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me," Lange once said of her altered gait. "I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it."
From 1935 to 1939, Dorothea Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten — particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers — to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, her poignant images became icons of the era.
Lange's best-known picture is titled "Migrant Mother." The woman in the photo is Florence Owens Thompson
In 1960, Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph:
" I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it." (Popular Photography, Feb. 1960) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JapaneseAmericansChildrenPledgingAllegiance1942-2.jpg http://chiqclicks.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/10-08-007-Lange.jpg http://www.shorpy.com/node/3065?size=_original#caption
Lange died of esophageal cancer on October 11, 1965, age 70.[5][12] She was survived by her second husband, Paul Taylor, two children, three stepchildren, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
@gozoinklings Above is my rough draft. Is this helpful? I love her work. Im not the best at putting this all together. Let me know and Ill work on it. Thank you=)
@aprilmilani he he! - fast work - you will get a notification from me about small doubt re this choice following on from aberhart
but i just looked at this shorpy link http://www.shorpy.com/dorothea-lange-photographs
which shows the diversity you mentioned
send me your email april
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From 1935 to 1939, Dorothea Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten — particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers — to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, her poignant images became icons of the era.
Lange's best-known picture is titled "Migrant Mother." The woman in the photo is Florence Owens Thompson
In 1960, Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph:
" I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it." (Popular Photography, Feb. 1960)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JapaneseAmericansChildrenPledgingAllegiance1942-2.jpg
http://chiqclicks.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/10-08-007-Lange.jpg
http://www.shorpy.com/node/3065?size=_original#caption
Lange died of esophageal cancer on October 11, 1965, age 70.[5][12] She was survived by her second husband, Paul Taylor, two children, three stepchildren, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
but i just looked at this shorpy link
http://www.shorpy.com/dorothea-lange-photographs
which shows the diversity you mentioned
send me your email april