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Dorothea Lange, Alabama Plow Girl, near Eutaw, Alabama, 1936, gelatin silver print, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2001 (2001.390). 43 of 54 Dorothea Lange, Child Living in Oklahoma City Shacktown , August 1936, gelatin silver print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Feb 13, 2020 · Lange’s career owed much to luck, good and bad. Born to German immigrants in Hoboken, N.J., in 1895 as Dorothea Nutzhorn, she contracted polio at 7 and limped thereafter from a withered right ...
Feb 6, 2020 · Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) reflected, “All photographs—not only those that are so called 'documentary’ ...
Jul 27, 2022 · Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer who is best known for Migrant Mother, an iconic photo of the Great Depression. Her work helped Americans see the devastating effects of the ...
Nov 13, 2023 · Lange insulated this boy from the bustle of the classroom by dramatically cropping her photograph. She offered the child a moment of stillness, focusing on his calm expression. While she made this print for her 1966 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Lange did this kind of cropping throughout her career.
Critics and curators, family and friends agree that it was the heart of Dorothea Lange that guided the focus of her camera lens and composition of images. . Whether viewing a single image or the thousands that comprise a lifetime’s work, one sees that Lange called upon the sheer power of her considerable will to force the medium of photography to obey and respond to the world that surrounded ...
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression. Story.
