Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 21 Dorothea Lange Questions: |
Look Questions
1. Who is the most important person in this photograph? How is attention drawn to her?
2. How many children do you see in this photograph? How are they related to the woman? What makes you think so?
3. What clues do you see in this photograph that tell you this family is going through hard times?
4. Look closely. Can you see a triangle suggested by the arrangement of the figures? What parts of the figures form the sides? Where is the triangle's point?
5. An IMPLIED LINE is a line that is visually suggested by the arrangement of forms. Where did Lange use implied lines in this photograph? Where do these implied lines meet?
6. When a photographer "frames" a photograph, she or he chooses what to include within the edges of the photograph, as well as what to leave out. What has Dorothea Lange left out of this photograph?
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