PHOTOGRAPHS’ THAT HAVE STRONG EXIBITION VALUE

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson, 1936

Dorothea Lange took this photograph in 1936, while she employed by the federal Farm Security Administration (FSA) to document migratory farm laborers escaping dustbowl conditions during the Great Depression. In Nipomo, California, Lange came across Florence Owens Thompson and her children in a camp. She was hungry and a desperate mother who feed on frozen vegetables and wild birds. Dorothea took. One photograph she took from that day, now known as Migrant Mother, was widely circulated to magazines and newspapers at the time and became a symbol of the plight of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression.”

This piece has a strong exhibition value because after this photograph was taken, t was widely spread in news papers and magazines for people to see and know what was going on then. Hence this piece was presented publicly that’s what bring its exhibition value.

 

 

Stanley Forman, Fire Escape Collapse, 1975

Diana Bryant and Tiare Jones fall from the collapsing fire escape and this picture was taken by Stanley Forman, in 1975. After this picture was taken it was wide spread all over the world and Stanley was recognized for his good works.

What makes to have a strong exhibition value if the fact that it was publicly exhibited and the picture won a lot of public attention.

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