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DAY 180 | SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY |
Family Structure
PYRAMID OF LIFE
A cotton sharecropper family snapped by Dorothea Lange in Cleveland, Mississippi, June 1937, reveals a portrait of a family struggling with poverty and the needs of a growing family. What the future holds for this family is unknown but clues are exposed in its composition.
The arrangement of the family members speaks to the social structure of a traditional family unit. The rectangular format of the photograph implies perspective or direction and, in this instance, pinpoints a moment on the trajectory of family life. Framed inside the construction of the home and porch, ...
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