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  Dorothea Lange
Photographer Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895.
Lange is best known for her work documenting poor conditions of the migrant workers who traveled in large numbers to California during the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s.
With her photographs Lange was able to capture the emotional and physical toll that the Depression and other events took on human beings across the country.
www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/lange   (108 words)

  
 ALA | Dorothea Lange
Dorothea was photographing for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), documenting the appalling rural conditions created by the Great Depression, and she relied on Ron to drive her up and down the back roads of California.
Dorothea was in her 40s, with clear gray eyes, short-cropped hair, and a limp from childhood polio.
In August 1964, Dorothea was diagnosed with an incurable cancer of the esophagus.
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 Wikinfo | Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895-October 11, 1965) was an influential documentary photographer.
Lange began her career in New York, later migrating to San Francisco where she opened a portrait studio in 1918.
From 1935 to 1940, Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten, particularly displaced farm families and migrant workers, to public attention.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Dorothea_Lange   (324 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange is remembered for her images of proud and destitute share croppers from the south, and of the people who moved west in search of a brighter future who ended up in camps in the Central Valley.
Lange found the energy and newness of the experience exhilarating and saw in it a premonition of the future.
Dorothea Lange was almost invisible as she wandered around photographing; Ansel Adams, however, wearing his ten-gallon and bushy beard, attracted attention.
www.ibiblio.org /channel/Lange.html   (1065 words)

  
 Lincolnshire Post-Polio Library [Dr. Henry writes about Dorothea Lange]
Dorothea Lange was the subject of the documentary.
Lange achieved some fame as a result of her many photos of individuals who were directly affected by the poverty and deprivations of the economic depression.
Dorothea Lange, A Visual Life edited by Elizabeth Partridge, and published by the Smithsonian Press is filled with most of Lange's most famous photographs.
www.ott.zynet.co.uk /polio/lincolnshire/library/drhenry/dorothealange.html   (1328 words)

  
 Masters of Photography: Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 — October 11, 1965) was an influential documentary photographer.
Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.
In 1952 Lange was one of the founders of Aperture.
www.masters-of-photography.com /L/lange/lange_articles1.html   (475 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange vintage photographs for sale
Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895 and studied photography with Clarence White at Columbia University.
Lange documented the breakdown of traditional rural life as farm dwellers became impoverished by a long-standing agricultural depression, and replaced by machines in the field.
Lange's innate sympathy and direct vision enabled her to create photographs that are both sensitive and powerful.
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 Photographs from the FSA and OWI
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895 and studied photography in New York City before the First World War.
The most poignant and moving photographs from Lange's trip convey a mood rather than describing circumstances or activities: the man hunkered at the edge of the field, the mother and child in the tent opening, and the trio of men, one of whom casts a defiant glance at the photographers.
Lange's photographs were intended to bolster support for the establishment of migrant camps in the area by the Resettlement Administration.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html   (1573 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange Biography
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Of her work during this era Lange said: “The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
During World War II Dorothea Lange documented the internment of Japanese-Americans in camps and then turned her lens on women and members of minority groups at work side by side in California shipyards.
www.americanswhotellthetruth.org /pgs/portraits/Dorothea_Lange.html   (377 words)

  
 Lesson Plan - Dorothea Lange
Dorothea was born on May 25, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey to Henry Martin Nutzhorn and Joan Lange Nutzhorn.
Dorothea, her brother, and mother had to move in with Joan's mother Sophie to be closer to the library.
Dorothea is known as one of the first women documentary photographers and her work remains popular all over the world.
teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/DOROTHEA.html   (1728 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange Photographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is evident that from the first to the last image, Lange had moved in closer, and created an emphasis on the mother.
Lange has manipulated her subjects, to imply that a poor mother with two children (an average amount) will be capable to lead her family(doesn't her face express it?) out of their state of suffering, into the more prosperous future, if she is given the chance.
I do not know what type of camera Lange used here; like Evans, she uses sharp focus, but both Lange and Evans were technical experts anyway.
xroads.virginia.edu /~UG97/fsa/lang.html   (313 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange Oral History Interview Conducted by Richard K. Doud for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian ...
DOROTHEA LANGE: The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree, and hoping you don't see him, is the fellow that you'd better find our why.
DOROTHEA LANGE: Well, it's a question I have asked myself, and you know, during the years it was being formed it was not a success.
DOROTHEA LANGE: I have it too, and that is the importance of recognizing that we have that problem, that we share it with millions of others.
artarchives.si.edu /collections/oralhistories/transcripts/lange64.htm   (10161 words)

  
 What Does a Person Deserve? The Answer Found in a Great Photograph
I believe Dorothea Lange had a great emotion, and her technique is as careful as her emotion is large.
Dorothea Lange carefully isolated the man against a dark background with a warm light on his hands, the simple cup, and his hat.
Dorothea Lange's photograph is a terrific criticism of the profit system, which is based on selfishness and contempt: the exploitation of people for profit without caring about their feelings or what they deserve.
davidmbernstein.home.mindspring.com /Dorothea_Lange.html   (1387 words)

  
 Profotos - Dorothea Lange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lange's concern for people, her appreciation of the ordinary, and the striking empathy she showed for her subjects make her unique among photographers of her day.
Lange's documentary style achieved its fullest expression in these year, with photographs such as "Migrant Mother" becoming instantly recognized symbols of the migrant experience.
During the War Lange documented the forced relocation of Japanese American citizens to internment camps; recorded the efforts of women and minority workers in wartime industries at California shipyards; and covered the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco.
www.profotos.com /education/referencedesk/masters/masters/dorothealange/dorothealange.shtml   (492 words)

  
 The Power of Dorothea Lange's Pictures
Dorothea Lange took this picture of farm workers washing in a hot spring in California
In order to take striking and moving photographs, Dorothea Lange had to earn the trust of her subjects.
Lange's friend, Ron Partridge, recalled how she worked in the fields of California, photographing the workers.
www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/writers/lange/power_1   (115 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was one of the most prolific photographers of the twentieth century for her work chronicling the plight of Americans during the Great Depression and during World War II.
Because of her own personal experiences in which she was the one struggling and fighting to survive, she was able to create a bond with the subjects of her pictures.
Dorothea understood that the American public and the US government would not understand the problems of farmers with reports filled with meaningless words.
www.tufts.edu /programs/mma/fah189/2003/dan/lange   (191 words)

  
 Lange,Dorothea Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Lange's direct, compelling studies of people forced from the land are both a faithful chronicle and a landmark of...
Accompanying the photographs are text by Gerry Mullins which describes Lange's motivation to go to Ireland, her travels there, and the subjects of her photographs, and an essay by Lange's son,...
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) is widely recognized as one of the most influential photographers in American history.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Lange,Dorothea   (621 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was a natural photographer in the truest sense because she lived, in her words, "a visual life." She could look at something: a line of laundry flapping in the wind, a pair of old, wrinkled, work-worn hands, a bread-line, a crowd of people in a bus station, and find it beautiful.
Lange was born May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey, where two painful events left indelible marks on her life.
In 1965, the last year of her life, Dorothea Lange was honored by a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=d_lange   (1557 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange:
With camera in hand, Dorothea Lange recorded the forgotten men, women and children of the 1930s: the rural poor whose meager existence stretched from the southeastern to the southwestern states.
Dorothea Lange contributed mightily to our history and her work deserves broader exposure.
Increases awareness of Dorothea Lange as an individual and of her photography as an interpretation of American society and culture.
www.dorothea-lange.org /text.home.htm   (298 words)

  
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Dorothea Lange’s documentary photography obtained government relief for Dust Bowl migrants because she “visually demonstrated the hunger, poverty, hardship, and the plight of the migrant,” (Garland, 2003).
Dorothea Lange, a New Jersey born photographer, had a “voice” in the public through the pictures she took, especially during the Great Depression.
The Columbia Encyclopedia (2003) describes “Lange’s photographs as emphasizing the laborer’s dignity and pride in an environment of starkest poverty.” Through only text in the textbook, students have no way to understand and actually experience the hardship of the migrants who lived through the Dust Bowl.
tqnyc.org /NYC030395/DorotheaLange/main.html   (1597 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange at Raphael Weill School - 1942
Dorothea Lange’s tremendous body of work for the War Relocation Authority, contains four chilling frames that may be among the most powerful photographs of wartime San Francisco.
April 27, 1942, seven days after Lange left Raphael Weill School, registration began for another wave of internments, and the next day, Friday, April 28, half of the Japanese were removed from San Francisco and housed in converted horse stalls at Tanforan Race Track in San Mateo County.
Prints of the Dorothea Lange Raphael Weill School photographs may be found in the Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Division.
www.sfmuseum.org /hist10/lange2.html   (859 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange | Photographs of a Lifetime
Lange, with her still pictures, and Steinbeck, with two novels, a play, and a motion picture, have done more for these tragic nomads than all the politicans in the country.
Aperture, with their usual art and grace, and taste, have given us here almost 150 Lange photographs, including photos from her early days in San Francisco, and, as well, some from Egypt, India, and Ireland.
But the singular fact is that even without cropping and cutting, she had the wisdom to know that she had found a face, a haunting face of an anguished mother, a face that would tell the story of an entire generation of the dispossessed.
www.ralphmag.org /langeM.html   (826 words)

  
 Dorothea Lange - Women Come to the Front (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Lange's earlier work documenting displaced farm families and migrant workers during the Great Depression did not prepare her for the disturbing racial and civil rights issues raised by the Japanese internment.
Lange quickly found herself at odds with her employer and her subjects' persecutors, the United States government.
Not surprisingly, many of Lange's photographs were censored by the federal government, itself conflicted by the existence of the camps.
lcweb.loc.gov /exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html   (338 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Dorothea Lange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lange began her career as an independent portrait photographer in San Francisco after finishing a degree at Columbia University in New York.
Her 1936 "Migrant Mother," one of the most reproduced pieces in the history of photography, shows a weary-looking but stalwart mother, somehow retaining her dignity and composure in the midst of Depression-era poverty -- a band of ragamuffin children cling to her even as they hide their faces from the camera.
The ninth photo is a picture of Lange herself in old age.
www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=203   (399 words)

  
 Artist Profiles: Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
Lange became angry with her employers for the perceived injustices she witnessed in the internment camps.
Dorothea Lange died of cancer in 1965 just prior to the opening of her exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Dorothea Lange has undoubtedly earned her place as a Master of Photography in the 20th Century.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/10664/82545   (549 words)

  
 Hand & Eye: Fifteen Years of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dorothea Lange articulates this power, the promise of documentary expression, in a 1940 essay: “Documentary photography,”; she writes, “records the social scene of our time.
It mirrors the present and documents for the future.” The values inherent in the work and spirit of Dorothea Lange, with her husband and creative partner Paul Taylor, have been guiding principles for the documentary projects of all the Lange–Taylor prizewinners, and we honor their words and photographs, their ambitious work, here.
Dorothea Lange, a photographer, and Paul Taylor, an economist, first collaborated in California when Taylor, working for the Rural Rehabilitation Division of the California State Emergency Relief Administration, asked for a photographer to help him with his research and final report.
cds.aas.duke.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /exhibits/hand&eye.html   (1073 words)

  
 Lange Fellowship - About Dorothea Lange
Lange's documentary style achieved its fullest expression in these years, with photographs such as Migrant Mother becoming instantly recognized symbols of the Depression.
Lange's dedication and compassion drove her even during the final years of her life.
Dorothea Lange's collection of more than 25,000 negatives were donated to the Oakland Museum of California as her husband, UC Berkeley Professor Paul Taylor, understood and recognized the important regional connections for this archive by a nationally known image maker.
www.berkeley.edu /lange/lange.html   (310 words)

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