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Meet the woman who showed America the consequences of the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. Though she had never used or owned a camera, Lange was adamant she would become a photographer when she graduated high school in the early 1900s. Having studied photography at Columbia ...
Apr 28, 2010 · Photographer Dorothea Lange pictured in Texas, circa 1934. "She had an extraordinary power to connect with all sorts of people, to draw them out," says author Linda Gordon. Paul S. Taylor. Many of ...
Dorothea Lange was determined to be a photographer before she had a camera. Rather than follow her mother's wishes that she train as a school teacher, Lange apprenticed herself in a series of New York studios, including that of Arnold Genthe. Her plan to travel around the world in 1919 was thwarted when her money was stolen.
Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the ...
Beginning in the early 1930s, America suffered an economic crisis that lasted nearly a decade—the Great Depression. Until then, Dorothea Lange had been a successful portrait photographer. But the events of the time prompted her to leave the safety of her studio to create powerful images of people in crisis—Dust Bowl refugees, migrant workers, and the urban homeless. Through her photographs ...
May 8, 2020 · Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photograph. Then in 1978, a woman named Florence Owens Thompson wrote a letter to the editor of the Modesto Bee newspaper. She was the mother in the famous ...
Feb 9, 2020 · Lange paid sharp attention to the human condition, conveying stories of everyday life through her photographs and the voices they drew in. Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures brings iconic works from the collection together with less seen photographs, from her landmark photobook An American Exodus to projects on criminal justice reform.
