Book Description
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) is one of the most famous documentary photographers of all time. In 1935, tired of studio portraiture, she began working for the Farm Security Administration and created many of the images that define the Depression in the popular imagination. Other artists in this series include: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin
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Text: French, German
Card catalog description
A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms.
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Dorothea Lange was working for the FSA in California at the same time as Walker Evans was photographing in the South. Her work from this time produced one of the iconic images of the twentieth century -- Migrant Mother, also known as Migrant Madonna. Lange was an overtly political photographer. She empathized greatly with the plight of her subjects. Her photographs show her respect for their dignity in the face of often unbearable circumstances and explicitly condemn those she perceived as their exploiters.
Art & Photography
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