Dorothea is known as one of the best documentary photographers in America. Much of her work was during the Great Depression, really depicting the hopelessness, devastation, and grief of that time period. She worked mainly in the West (Arizona and California) and in the Midwest, photographing farmers and migrant workers. To me, her work was so important and so effective because helped people view what was really going on around them. They are very honest photographs in that nothing is staged or set up, everything has a raw emotion, or sense of truth to it.
To me, important techniques she used was perspective and relationship with the subject. The was she is able to capture a glance, or a gaze, makes you feel like you know the person in the photo, or that you are sharing their emotions. The contrast in her pictures is not faked, and adds a sense of reality to the photographs as well.
The motivation behind her landscape photos is to show what effect the Great Depression was having on the people, your fellow neighbors of the United States. It was obviously an aweful era and being also being a photojournalist, she felt it was her duty to capture the world around us without sugar coating what was really going on.
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