Introducing Art

Chapter 12: Recording Events

Web Museum Activities

The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
In Chapter 12, you learned how artists of different times and cultures have recorded events. You also discovered how photography developed as an art form. To learn more about the use of photography in recording events, click on The Getty Museum link above. Here, you can view the work of Dorothea Lange, who is known for her photographs documenting the Great Depression.

What do these images reveal? What significant moments did Lange capture on film? Explain the "four W's" for each photograph.