Who is Dorothea Lange
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Dorothea Lange: America's Documentary Photographer
New Dorothea Lange Biography Now Available!
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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
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Linda Gordan's new book about the life of photographer Dorothea Lange has already received glowing praise, including -
Starred Review. Riveting portrait of one of America's most renowned photographers....Though largely sympathetic, Gordon doesn't shy away from depicting Lange's sometimes questionable decisions regarding her personal life. A rigorously constructed, entertaining biography. (Kirkus Reviews )
As Dorothea Lange's biographer, Linda Gordon is fortunate that Lange's private life was as complex-exceptional yet archetypal-as the history she documented in her photographs. The resulting book is superb social history rendered through a remarkable artist and personality. (Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Carry Me Home )
An astonishing and deeply moving biography of Dorothea Lange, America's foremost social photographer. No other account can rival this one for its engagement or for its dissection of the passions, injuries, and hopes that impelled Lange to challenge the boundaries of gender, race, and family. Linda Gordon writes about her complex subject with sophistication, frankness, and sensitivity. In the process, Gordon demonstrates yet again that she is among the most gifted and probing historians of our time. (Gary Gerstle, author of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century )
Release Date: 12/31/1969
Dorothea Lange Photos - Posters and Prints From The Great Depression
Depression-Era Photos
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The Migrant Mother photograph is perhaps Dorothea Lange's most famous photo during the Great Depression.
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This photo shows that it was not just mothers who were desperate to care for their children, as a migrant worker holds his baby.
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In this photo, the coming dust storm is shown, creating problems for farmers trying to eek out a living on their land.
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Here we see a family that has moved from Oklahoma to what they hope will be better farming land.
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Two men walk towards California in search of better work opportunities.
Dorothea Lange Photos - Posters and Prints From Internment Camps
Photos of the plight of Japanese-Americans during World War II
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As anti-Japanese sentiment began to spread in America, Dorothea Lange began to document the beginnings what would soon become institutionalized racism in America.
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As Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans began to be forced to leave their homes, Dorothea Lange captured their journey. Here, a soldier guards those awaiting for transport.
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Here, Lange shoots children waiting to their bags upon arrival at the internment camp.
Evacuee of Japanese Ancestry Identifies Her Baggage at Assembly Center Photographic Print
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Here, Dorothea shoots from between stacks of luggage, and catches a woman finding her bags after the journey.
War Relocation Authority Center, Where Evacuees of Japanese Ancestry of WWII Reside Photographic PrintLange, Dorothea Buy at AllPosters.com
Here Dorothea shoots the end of the journey, the relocation camp.
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amazingwomeninhistory
Jan 9, 2012 @ 8:30 am | delete
- Dorothea Lange was an amazing photographer and I really wish she was more well-known. Her work is so emotionally evocative. Greats lens :)
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Apr 11, 2011 @ 7:52 pm | delete
- Dorothea Lange had such vision. I really respect how she illuminates the core truth without any gloss. Thanks for your spotlight on this photo legend. Nicely done!
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Apr 1, 2011 @ 12:03 pm | delete
- Angel Blessed and lensrolled to Born to Be Angelic
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sukkran
Feb 20, 2011 @ 10:15 am | delete
- thanks for introducing dorothea lange. bw photos are really great.
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LauraSchofield
Feb 17, 2011 @ 2:50 pm | delete
- What a fantastic lens! I have a copy of her 'Ireland' book, but never knew the story behind the photographer, nor did I see her connection with the Depression. Thank you for putting this together.
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AbbieW
Feb 6, 2011 @ 9:05 pm | delete
- Dorothea Lange's photos are so inspirational. They really capture the fragility of human life beautifully! Thanks for sharing what you know about her.
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Jan 12, 2011 @ 1:15 pm | delete
- That photo of the farm woman reminds me of the classic Afghanistan woman (who I featured in my Tribute to the women of Afghanistan) I have lensrolled this to Diane Arbus, Ansel Adams and Annie Leibowitz.
I have known that photo for a while and her name, but hadn't put the two of them together. Thanks for doing it for me.
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vallain
Jan 3, 2011 @ 10:38 pm | delete
- I'm fascinated by the Great Depression. Thanks for featuring this wonderful photographer.nos
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lizziebeth
Dec 15, 2010 @ 5:08 pm | delete
- That was a hard-hitting video. Thanks for sharing it, and information about Dorothea Lange.
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Beautiful-Bridal
Oct 8, 2010 @ 2:05 pm | delete
- She was a woman WAY ahead of her time, thank you for sharing.
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Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression
Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression (Music in American Life)
Amazon Price: $27.75 (as of 02/17/2012)
Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration photography program. With an appreciation for the amateur and the local, FSA photographers depicted a range of musicians sharing the regular music of everyday life, from informal songs in migrant work camps, farmers' homes, barn dances, and on street corners to organized performances at church revivals, dance halls, and community festivals. Captured across the nation from the northeast to the southwest, the images document the last generation of musicians who learned to play without the influence of recorded sound, as well as some of the pioneers of Chicago's R & B scene and the first years of amplified instruments. The best visual representation of American roots music performance during the Depression era, Hard Luck Blues features photographs by Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, and others.
Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression
Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression
Amazon Price: $24.50 (as of 02/17/2012)
From Publishers Weekly
McDannell presents a persuasive case that religion has been overlooked in our historical understanding of the enduring photographs of the Great Depression. She opens the book by comparing Dorothea Lange's most famous portrait, "Migrant Mother," with a less famous image that presents a very different image of a Depression-era woman, this one with arms outstretched in a posture of outright Christian joy. Snapping the picture at a revival meeting in a dilapidated garage, Lange took great pains to record the woman's words as she testified about her strong faith. In this book, McDannell draws upon a sampling of the approximately 164,000 black-and-white photographs that the federal government commissioned between 1935 and 1943, pointing out how religion appears throughout as an important facet of daily life for many Americans. We see images of Jews farming in Connecticut and New Jersey (in striking contrast to the stereotypical interwar depictions of Jews as entirely urban people); of African-American Christians in Chicago and throughout the South (including pictures of the oft-overlooked blacks who worshiped in Catholic and Episcopalian churches); and various charitable efforts that religious institutions ran to feed the hungry and house the homeless. This book is a significant addition to our understanding of the importance of religion in the Great Depression.
Talk about Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression
Talk about Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression
Amazon Price: $12.98 (as of 02/17/2012)
'Things ain't now like they used to be nohow,' a Virginia native told a WPA worker in the 1930s. Indeed, a central theme unifying the hundreds of life histories recorded by Virginia Writers' Project fieldworkers between 1938 and 1941 is that the narrators all bear witness to the vast socioeconomic and cultural changes brought about by the Great Depression and the New Deal's responses to it. These never-published VWP narrative interviews, however, have remained largely unknown and unavailable to readers until now.
Talk about Trouble presents 61 Writers' Project life histories that depict Virginia men and women, both blacks and whites, and offer a cross-section of ages, occupations, experiences, and cultural and class backgrounds. Headnotes set the context for each life history and introduce people and themes that link individual events and experiences. One hundred sixty photographs, most taken in the state by Farm Security Administration or Virginia WPA photographers, add graphic texture and backdrop to the stories and lives recounted.
