Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs showing the United State's poor families during the Depression influenced the development of documentary photography.
| Dorothea Lange | |
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| Dorothea Lange in 1936; photographer | |
| Born | May 25, 1895 Hoboken, New Jersey |
| Died | October 11, 1965 (aged 70) San Francisco, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Photography |
Lange was born on May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey.[1] In 1914 Lange started her career working in the studio of photographer Arnold Genthe. She also studied with Clarence Hudson White at Columbia University.[2] In 1919 Lange opened her own portrait studio in San Francisco, California.[3]
In 1935 Lange began working for the Resettlement Administration which was later renamed the Farm Security Administration. In 1936 she took her best-known photograph Migrant Mother.[2]
Lange died on October 11, 1965, in San Francisco, California.[1]
A retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1966.[4]
Notable works
Lange's Migrant Mother
- JapaneseAmericansChildrenPledgingAllegiance1942.jpg
Children at the Weill public school in San Francisco in April 1942, prior to the internment of Japanese Americans.
- JapaneseAmericanGrocer1942.jpg
A Japanese American unfurled this banner the day after the Pearl Harbor attack; Lange photographed it in March 1942, just prior to his internment.
Dorothea Lange Media
Lange in 1936 holding a Graflex 4×5 camera atop a Ford Model 40 in California, photographed by her assistant Rondal Partridge
- Broke, baby sick, and car trouble! - Dorothea Langes photo of a Missouri family of five in the vicinity of Tracy, California.jpg
"Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" (1937)
- JapaneseAmericansChildrenPledgingAllegiance1942-2.jpg
Children at the Weill public school in San Francisco recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag in April 1942, prior to the internment of Japanese Americans.
- Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at . . . - NARA - 537994.jpg
Grandfather and grandson at Manzanar Relocation Center
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dorothea Lange". Britannica. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dorothea Lange ~ Dorothea Lange Biography with Photo Gallery | American Masters | PBS". American Masters. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ↑ "Dorothea Lange". International Center of Photography. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ↑ "Dorothea Lange | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
Other websites
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