my favorite photographers

Although I'd hesitate to cite a specific photographer as my inspiration, I do admire the works of several eminent photographic artists including Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, and Ansel Adams.

Dorthea Lange

One of my favorite photographs is Migrant Mother captured in 1936 by Dorothea Lange on her visit to a migrant worker's campsite. My admiration for Lange as a photographer is based on the compelling aesthetic quality of her work but also, and more importantly, on the fact that her photography helped the public better understand the plight of the desperately poor and almost forgotten migrant farmer during the days of the Great Depression.

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." -Dorothea Lange