Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 21 Dorothea Lange Questions: |
Look Questions Teacher Answer Key
1. Who is the most important person in this photograph? (Mother.) How is attention drawn to her? (She is the largest figure; she is in the middle; hers is the only face clearly visible.)
2. How many children do you see in this photograph? (Three.) How are they related to the woman? (They are her children.) What makes you think so?
3. What clues do you see in this photograph that tell you this family is going through hard times? (Mother's facial expression, the figures' ragged, dirty clothes, their body language.)
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? (One implied line runs from center top to bottom, and another runs from center left to right.) Where do these implied lines meet? (In the photo's center.)
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? (Parts of the figures' bodies, part of the
post in the lower right, and clues to their setting.)
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