Dorothea Lange's photograph White Angel Breadline, San Francisco 1933 shows a group of monotone men huddled together confined by a small fence that is being used as to lean on. The subjects all seem to be one in the same but somehow different, however there is slight deviation in the dead centre of the image and this is the man that is facing the complete other direction in relation to the other men in the image. The man has a rather tatty hat on unlike the others in the image but he almost seems to blend in with them. The fact that he is engulfed by the other men really does enforce the fact that he is being categorised in this image as he appears to be the odd one out amongst the other men. His gesture also lends itself to categorising the man further as he seems as if he is gazing out and wanting freedom from the inside of this social circle.
"After the second world war, a number of photographers rediscovered the traditional (or improvised ) studio as a site for taking photos, in order to rid the urban figures and social types of their everyday surroundings and to give them a stage on which to present themselves as individuals." Ebner Florain (2008) Urban characters, imaginary cities, in the street and studio: An urban history of photography, Eskildsen, Ute ed, London Tate. this quote makes it even harder to refuse the fact that this image uses techniques that make man seem as if he is somehow out of his depth and therefor a inadequate man, compare this to the image Central Park 1982 by Tod papageorge and the difference is immediately visible. In this image the man is quite literally stripped of his clothing which therefore takes away his social identity and gives the viewer a more in-depth look at his as an individual. The fact that the mans business type bag is propping his feet up while he lays in the grass is the only thing that points to him being anything other than a naked man with no identity in a park really makes the quote ring true as this is a post WWII image that takes away most things associated with the street as such.
