Roadside View, Alabama Coal Area Company Town, 1935
Roadside Stand Near Birmingham, 1936
Post Office, Sprott, Alabama, 1936
Main Street of County Seat, Alabama, 1936
Grave, 1936
Alabama Cotton Tenent Farmer Family [Fields Family], 1936
Alabama Cotton Tenent Farmer [Bud Fields] 1936
[Storefront, Moundville, Alabama], 1936
[Storefront, Greensboro, Alabama], 1936
[Landlord, Hale County, Alabama], 1936
[Katie Tingle], 1936
These are so sweet. Especially since they capture the elements of a time period gone by. What's really cool is how these images stand the test of time, and have the same impact now that they probably did when they were taken. It's always interesting to see someone try to capture something beyond just the human form in their work.
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These photos definitely show the impact of the time they were taken at, both in the expressions of the people and the setting itself. I'm interested in seeing how you are going to interpret this in your work
ReplyDeletei'm not sure i would have gotten a somber feeling from these photos had you not titled them telling us they were taken during the great depression
ReplyDeleteI have a similar concept, but I think that yours focuses more on the disparity of the situation which is what interests me, where did you shoot? was it landscape mostly? or did you do some portraiture?
ReplyDeletethese images evoke Steinbeck like visuals. books like in dubious battle. there is like a really cool interplay between the run down and the hardiness of people
ReplyDeleteThese images are stirring. As well as being interesting in composition they also have a journalistic quality to them.
ReplyDeletethese are great, and it seems that their greatness is in their subject matter. the words you used at the beginning, "the great depression, alabama" i fear have shadowed the entire way i viewed them, and i would feel doubt in my own ability to emulate such a photographer, due to my inability to capture the same subject matter. in fact i do feel this way about my own project, and i am eager to see how you fared.
ReplyDeleteThis work is very similar to Dorothea Lange but I think he had a much more orderly style than he did. Especially in the ones you posted, it seems his subject is often the center of the frame. I'm interested to see if you tried to mimick the style of the time or if you applied to his style to modern day life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sara's comment about this work being similar to Dorothea Lange in the sense of the documentary style of photography. These images capture the fashion and feeling of certain places without using any words which is very hard to do and when done correctly, very powerful and moving, much like the portraits of people and the picture of the grave.
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