There are many photographers from various areas of life that have contributed their ideas and beliefs into society through the use of photographs. Many have tried to show society a different perspective on something that needs to be recognized, while others try to improve the way of life buy using methods they believe is the best way to solve the issue. I believe that these two photographers, Dorothea Lange and Hugh Diamond, have successfully contributed to these goals, while each using very diverse methods to express their ideals.
Hugh Diamond was a photographer who used his knowledge of science and medicine to conduct his ideas on how to help mentally ill patients through photography. I took interest in this photography because his work
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He would use this picture as his main source of reference and diagnose the patient according to it. Dorothea Lange was a photographer who used her perspective on reality, and specifically the Depression, to show society a different side of life that many people have never seen. She became influential for documentary photography on the Depression since her portraits became very famous over the years. She used the method of words and the power of realism to get her message across. One good example of this comes from her famous photographer, The Migrant Mother.
During the Great Depression, Lang photographed this women who was stranded on a field because of work she was promised to get, but was never received. I took interest in this photographer particularly because of this photograph that I saw for the first time. It sent chills down my spine to picture me and my kids in that same situation and I admire the women for how strong she looks in the portrait. Her portraits of people working in the farms and those long breadlines opened the eyes of many people on just how hard that time was and the efforts that people went through to live for another