After reading the case study, Migrant Mother, I felt that it was a simple way to make a huge impact on the world. Stryker commented on Lange's image and summarized it in two words. "Mother and Child". This statement is such a basic idea, but after looking at the image you understand the stress and tension that this mother and her children were going through. On a more complex note Lange's Migrant Mother had a made an enormous statement about the political and economic state the country was going through. The women and children look beat up and dirty from the image and I'm sure a lot of people could connect with what this women was going through. There is no father in the image as well so there is a sense of abandonment or loneliness that we all feel at some point. I just find it amazing that such a simple image can become so popular and relatable without even one word said. This is really a basic example of how a picture can say a thousand words.
The case study also talked about how it was important to keep the image as untouched as possible. I think this is an important issue because to say an image is one hundred percent unaltered makes it even more relatable and genuine.
Even though this image rose to incredible heights of popularity, the case study talks about how it became a documentation of the time period. When an photograph can summarize the hardships the nation is going through with just one image then there is really something special there.
No comments:
Post a Comment