Saturday, April 22, 2017

Victor Valenzuela

Victor Valenzuela
Dorothea Lange, "White Bread Line"
1933

This photograph is astonishingly simple in relevance to the period in time it was taken. This picture was taken in 1933, during the great depression. It simply shows a man waiting in a long, crowded line to be served a couple of slices of bread to eat. This picture shows the basic needs of human beings and if not supplemented correctly can lead to a horrible devastation for many people. The aesthetic in this picture shows a poverty filled setting in the amount of people in the photo, the patience needed for the man to wait for his share of food, and the black and white  gives the photo its sensibility to the subject in the photo. To context this picture to our current times, we could learn to take items, people, or simply life for granted. Because you never know when things could turn for the worst.