Composition. Photographers

Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer. With an ability to organize a vast amount of visual information in dynamic compositions, Friedlander has made humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life, dense landscape and countless other subjects.

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) has been called America's greatest documentary photographer. She is best known for her chronicles of the Great Depression and for her photographs of migratory farm workers. Dorothea Lange, was the first artist to use photographs to explore relationships between people. The mother with her three small children (Migrant Mother; 1936) is probably the most famous photograph made in America. It shows Florence Owens, a migrant agricultural worker, and three of her eight children. Florence is actually gripping the tent pole of her humble dwelling in order to balance herself. Her expression came to symbolise the despair of an entire generation of working people during the Great Depression. The picture shows Lange not only had the technical skills of an experienced portraitist, but also the emotional depth of a great artist.

Reference: 
Weston Naef.(2004). Past masters;New Statesman, 133(4696), 41-43.  

Migrant Mother (1936 m.)

Garry Winogrant

Garry Winogrand (1928 –1984), a New Yorker who roamed the United States during the postwar decades, left behind a sweeping portrait of American life. His photographs powerfully combine the hope and exhilaration as well as the anxiety and turbulence that characterized America during these vital years, revealing a country that glitters with possibility but threatens to spin out of control.