The Flickr Dorothealange Image Generatr

"THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY - DON'T LET THE BIG MEN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU"
Sign at gas station, Kern County, California, November 1938. FSA photo by Dorothea Lange.

I have unfortunately not had time to post on Flickr about my current Burn2 build while the main parts of the event (this past weekend) were still running. The build will remain up until this-coming Sunday though, so it's not too late to come visit if you like. Several people will have their builds up through this week, and there will still be some events, so there is much to see. :)

The current Burn2 theme is "Clockwork Frontier", though I went a little loose with my interpretation. My build is inspired by what came *after* the frontier times in America: the dust bowl era of the 1930s and 1940s. One of the photographers who captured it, Dorothea Lange, also became a large part of the inspiration for my build and my avatar. The cabin is a small gallery of some of her dust bowl photos, as well as a couple photos of Dorothea herself, taken by others.

If you are unfamiliar with the dust bowl, it took place in some parts of the middle of the country during the great depression. Lots of people had moved to parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico in the 1890s in search of prosperity. Many were given government grants to set up homestead farms, and it was great in the beginning. Their farming practices and the ever-changing weather in the region combined to create a massive problem after a while, though. By the 1930s, the rains stopped coming. The soil became arid, and could no longer support the agriculture people had moved there for. The once-fruitful soils dried out and blew away, and contributed to massive dust storms which only intensified problems for the people there. A lot of folks suffered immeasurably in America during the great depression, and few places were hit harder than the dust bowl regions. It would later come to represent the tragedy of that time period as a whole.

If you'd like to learn more about the dust bowl, there are signs on both support posts on either side of the porch that link to videos about it. There's also a free gift in one of the grain sacks that contains the sky setting intended for this build (the one you can see in the photo). I made it extra dusty.

Here's what I used to make this build (that you can see or mostly see):

The shack/cabin: DRD - Hunters Retreat - Cabin
Windmill: Mansion creations - Antique Windmill
Fencing: This and That - rope fence
Barrel: [ Cabal ] - Water Barrel
Table: ~Nika & Bear~ - Garden table with box and soil
Grain sacks (retextured by me): Wolves Virtual Project - WVP FULL PERM Mesh: 3 sacks of wheat
Signs on the support beams on either side of the porch (sign portion textured by me): DRD - GG - Rustic Halloween boards (unlinked to use one of the boards)
Flag (retextured by me with a 1930s American flag -- only 48 stars back then): F-Factory - Waving flag: USA
Land form #1 (retextured): Little Branch - Young Tibetan Cherry - 4Seasons - Hill landform from this pack
Land form #2 (retextured): Studio Skye - Woodland Path
Crop rows: T-Spot Mesh - Dirt Rows for Vegetable Gardens
Water pump: The Black Forest - Hand Water Pump
Longhorns: Nature's Call - Steer Horns - Brown Leather Tooled Edges
Handcart: .:shamhat:. - wooden handcart
Wagon wheels: Argyle Builders - Wagon Wheel Set
Photo frames inside the cabin: [D]oppleganger - Bitch Framed Word Art (Pearl) [tinted]
Desk: Crocodoggle - Seaford Compact Desk - Beech
Sound design done by me, with the help of AI generators.

Location: The Dust Bowl @ Burn2
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ✶ SFMoMA
"Five Workers Against Concrete Wall, Industrial District, San Francisco"

silver gelatin print, 1934

documentary photography: the Great Depression

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Dorothea Lange’s famous Depression-era photograph is heavy with irony and social comment. But was it a true scenario that she actually captured, or did she stage the scene with volunteer models? I ask the question because a couple of famous 20th century photographs were not as spontaneous as they seemed. I think specifically of Robert Capa’s ‘Death in Battle’ (1937) and Robert Doisneau’s ‘Le Baiser’ (The Kiss) of 1949.

The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California. The artifact pictured is a digital scanof an original negative or print from Dorothea Lange's personal print and negative collection.

A 1938 photograph of Ma Burnham taken by American photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). Seen and photographed on display from the American Country Woman Series at the Oakland Museum of California (OCMA) in Oakland, California.

During the Great Depression, in the late 1930's, Dorothea Lange and her husband, agricultural economist Paul Schuster Taylor (1895-1984), documented migrant farm workers and homeless drought refugees in a book they wrote entitled 'An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion'. Their goal was to create a book that would reveal the human dimension of the crisis to the American people and, hopefully, prompt government relief. This photograph of Ma Burnham was included, along with a text written by Ma Burnham, in that publication,

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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), often called the "compassionate recorder", used her photographic skills to draw America's attention to the poor and forgotten during the dark days of the "Great Depression". Her stirring images of migrant farmers and the unemployed, while working for the Farm Security Administration, have become universally recognized symbols of the Depression-era. Lange was an influential photographer and photojournalist who profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.

Seen and photographed on display at The Oakland Museum of California.

Dorothea Lange: Seeing People; Monica by Daniel Clowes; The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride; Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange’s photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.

Lange took this photograph in 1939 of men on the porch of a country store in Gordonton, North Carolina. African-American men are seen sitting while the brother of the store owner stands in the doorway.

Seen on display at The Oakland Museum of California.

Chinese-born American contemporary artist, Hung Liu (1948-2021) was predominantly a painter, but also worked with mixed-media and site-specific installation and was also one of the first artists from China to establish a career in the United States. Hung drew inspiration from the photographs of Dorothea Lange .

Hung painted this from a depression-era photograph that Lange had titled "The Bindlestiff". A "bindlestiff" is characterized as a hobo. Bindlestiffs were in high population during the Great Depression in the U.S. (1929-1941) when men who had lost their jobs would hit the road searching for work.

See Lange's original photo at www.flickr.com/photos/greatestpaka/51707049876/in/photoli...

Go see the inspirartional Dorothea Lange exhibit in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Go see the inspirartional Dorothea Lange exhibit in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Go see the inspirartional Dorothea Lange exhibit in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Go see the inspirartional Dorothea Lange exhibit in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Go see the inspirartional Dorothea Lange exhibit in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Go see the inspirartional Dorothea Lange exhibit in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.