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Subject: [Leica] OT: discovered Lange photos
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Nov 6 12:48:38 2006
References: <m2slgwtyuq.fsf@whitefish.local> <454F598E.8040904@waltjohnson.com> <m2lkmotkin.fsf@whitefish.local>

I've gone back and looked the breadline photo many times over the last 
38 years. It is interesting to see how images can  sometimes just happen 
happen.The FSA website has quite a few different  "Migrant Mother" 
photos as well as many images  by the other FSA shooters. .Another 
photographer from the FSA period who's work I admire is Ben Shahn. After 
the  project he became much more famous as a painter and left-wing 
activist. For some reason his work just strikes a chord with me.

Walt

Dave Mason wrote:

>Walt,
>
>That was the photo of the man holding a beat-up tin cup who is facing
>the opposite way from another group of men - yes? What an amazing
>image. I believe I saw an alternate version of that photo taken with a
>more straight-on point-of-view and the photo loses almost all the
>power of the original. Same with the famous "Migrant Mother" shot -
>there are many alternates to that one which are great to see for the
>photography lesson contained within.
>
>
>Dave
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>Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> writes:
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>>I recently came across a copy of /*An American Exodus*/ by Lange and
>>her husband. Paperback, printed in 1969 and a bit battered but a
>>fantastic document. Cost me all of $3.00. As far as the interment
>>images being dark and disturbing? At the time many Americans probably
>>wanted to do the same to the Japanese Americans we will shortly do to
>>Saddam. The internment camps were, in my opinion, completely
>>unjustified but sometimes truth is dark and disturbing, Lange seemed
>>to seek out truth as Kyle does gun nuts. She did an image I can close
>>my eyes and see called /*White Angel Breadline*/. Don't know if you're
>>familiar  with it or not but well worth a look.
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>>Dave Mason wrote:
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>>>http://tinyurl.com/ymw9sk
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