Illusions

This picture connects to today's society and the American Dream. Especially with the illusion that money can buy happiness. For some, the American Dream dictates that in order to be happy or to succeed, one must have vast amounts of money. During the roaring twenties, America was in an economic boon. It was a time filled with financial success, materialism, jazz, credit and the artificial illusion that life was good. Once the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, so did disillusion. The country went into an economic downfall. The photographer of this photo, Dorothea Lange, depicts this in the photo provided as the woman appears to look devastated or disillusioned. "Lange one day found herself in Nipomo, California, at a campsite full of out-of-work pea pickers. The crop had been destroyed by freezing rain; there was nothing to pick. Lange approached one of the idle pickers, a woman sitting in a tent, surrounded by her seven children, and asked if she could photograph them... did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said that [she and her children] had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food.Therefore, this picture represents the outcome of the societal illusions.  If soceity creates so many, such as the illusion of the credit system, or this intangible money, then eventually this illusion will have to come to face with the disillusion.  That if one would to build their happiness purely on the foundations of illusions, like what Berlioz did (explained on Examples of Music tab), eventually you will have to come to consensus with the disillusion, or reality.