Emily Allera

Justin Sydlowski

Laura Sieber

Social Realism

Definition

A movement that focused on the unromantic lifestyle

of the working class.

History

Diego Rivera

The Great Depression

New Deal

Federal Art Project

MOVIE ON NEW DEAL OR GREAT DEPRESSION

Dorothea Lange

Born: Hoboken, New Jersey on May 26, 1895

Studied photography in NYC

Documented the lives of rich people

Switched to Documentary style when she joined the

Resettlement Administration in 1935

1) Children of Oklahoma

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2) Migrant Mother

Migrant Mother Information

Subject: Florence Owens Thompson

Taken: March, 1936 in Nipoma, California

Age: 32 years old

Florence had seven children. She was surviving on

frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields and

birds that her children had killed with stones.

Sources

1) Children of Oklahoma-

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b31646/

2) Migrant Mother-

http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/2007/03/21/migr

ant-mother-1936/

Sources

1) Children of Oklahoma-

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b31646/

2) Migrant Mother-

http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/2007/03/21/migr

ant-mother-1936/

Robert

Frank

Early Years

• Frank was born in a wealthy Jewish family in Zurich, Switzerland.

• Rosa, his Mom was Swiss, Hermann, his father, had become “stateless” after World War II and had to apply for the Swiss citizenship.

• The threat of Nazism affected Frank’s understanding of oppression.

• Frank turned to photography as a means to escape the confines of his business-oriented family and home.

Career Years

• Frank was initially optimistic about United States society and culture. However Frank's perspective changed as he witnessed the fast pace of American life and saw the overemphasis on money.

• Frank’s true thoughts of America was that the people were Bleak and Lonely.

Career Years

• In 1953, Frank began to work as freelancer photo journalist for magazines including McCall’s, Vogue, and Fortune.

• In 1958, he released the Photographic book, The Americans, which was Frank’s most important work.

Famous Works

Robert Frank, “The Americans” May 15, 1958

Robert Frank “The Americans” May 15, 1958

Famous

Works

Famous Works

Robert Frank, “The Americans” May 15, 1958

Famous Works

Robert Frank, “Lines of my Hand” 1972

Frank’s View of the

World

Frank photographed both the bright side of life and the dark side of the “50’s” with regard to class and racial differences.

Robert Frank, “The Lines of my Hand” 1972

Frank’s View of the

World - Artistic

Robert Frank, “Lines of my Hand” 1972

What sets Frank apart….

Frank photographed things that had never been photographed before, and didn’t care about what other people thought about it. He did what he was passionate about.

George

Bellows

Early Days

George Bellows was born in Columbus. He attended Ohio State University from 1901 to 1904 as a two sport athlete; baseball and basketball.

Early Days

George Bellows dropped out one year before graduation to move to New York to study Art – to draw and paint.

Famous Works

George Bellows, “Stag at Starkey’s” 1907

Famous Works

George Bellows, “Pennsylvania Station Excavation”

Famous Works

George Bellows, “Dempsey and Firpo”

Career Years

George Bellows became a professor at the first modern art school in New York. And in 1919, he moved to Chicago to teach at the Chicago Institute of Arts.

What sets George apart….

“The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and contains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.” George Bellows