Professor Elam

2/23/2025

The purpose of a college degree should be to boost a person from just average to at least above average in terms of general knowledge.''

Frankly I don't think universities are doing a very good job of that so here is an example.

Meet Dorothea Lange. College educated as a photographer she literally traveled the world eventually landing in San Francisco.

It was here memorable photos of the Depression that brought her to national attention.   The Federal Government hired her to illustrate the hardships of the Depression on ordinary people Perhaps her most famous photo was Migrant Mother, Nipomo CA 1936.   I had seen this photo for years before noticing the her two children behind  her,  hiding their heads not wanting to be photographed.  In this shot she had just sold her car. The photo speaks volumes of her

desperation wondering what she would do next.