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Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. Her most famous portrait is Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936).
Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
Jul 31, 2014 · Best known for her iconic photograph Migrant Mother, photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) had a career that spanned more than four decades. In 1919 at the age of 23 she daringly opened a ...
Dec 4, 2023 · A new exhibition explores the work of legendary photographer Dorothea Lange, who captured some of the most striking images ever shot of American poverty, hardship and resilience.
Apr 2, 2014 · Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography.
Dorothea Lange's images of Depression-era America made her one of the most acclaimed documentary photographers of the 20 th century. She is remembered above all for revealing the plight of sharecroppers, displaced farmers and migrant workers in the 1930s, and her portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936 ...
Nov 5, 2023 · Dorothea Lange: Seeing People. Past Exhibition. November 5, 2023 – March 31, 2024. West Building, Ground Floor. During her long, prolific, and groundbreaking career, the American photographer Dorothea Lange made some of the most iconic portraits of the 20th century.
Feb 6, 2020 · Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) reflected, “All photographs—not only those that are so called 'documentary’...can be fortified by words.”.
Nov 13, 2023 · American photographer Dorothea Lange is known for her compassionate portraits of people around the world. Her images are among the best known in the history of photography. But how did she create these iconic photographs?
Dorothea Lange (Getty Museum) Person. Born Dorothea Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey, to first-generation German Americans, Dorothea Lange was stricken at age seven with polio, which left her right leg and foot disfigured. Her father abandoned the family when she was twelve.
Oct 27, 2023 · “I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer,” Dorothea Lange said, “any more than you would not be sure that you were yourself.” In her long photography career, Lange would create some of the most iconic portraits of the 20th century.
Feb 10, 2020 · LANGE WAS BORN at the very end of the 19th century to educated and prosperous first-generation German-Americans. She read literature, patronized the arts and contracted polio. She retained the ...
Thus, Dorothea Lange marshaled her considerable energy and personal commitment from late 1935 to mid 1943 to give voice and color to society’s “cast asides.” She documented the lives and needs of the people whose lives were impacted, both positively and negatively, by the New Deal and domestic wartime policies of the Roosevelt years.
Feb 9, 2020 · Lange paid sharp attention to the human condition, conveying stories of everyday life through her photographs and the voices they drew in. Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures brings iconic works from the collection together with less seen photographs, from her landmark photobook An American Exodus to projects on criminal justice reform.
Nov 7, 2022 · Dorothea Lange, born 26 May 1895, is widely considered to be one of the most influential American photographers of the 20th century. Her most famous works were executed during periods of great social and economic hardship, often showcasing everyday people who were struggling with the effects of the Great Depression.
Dorothea Lange, Member of the congregation of Wheeley's church who is called "Queen." She is wearing the old fashioned type of sunbonnet. Her dress and apron were made at home.
Dorothea Lange was a successful portrait photographer in San Francisco when the stock market crashed in 1929. As her business diminished with the Depression, she began photographing the world around her, including labor strikes and protests.
Beginning in the early 1930s, America suffered an economic crisis that lasted nearly a decade—the Great Depression. Until then, Dorothea Lange had been a successful portrait photographer.
Feb 28, 2024 · Nearly 100 years ago, Lange chronicled the destitution and desperation of The Great Depression. An exhibition of her work at the National Gallery of Art speaks to the present day...
Nov 3, 2023 · Dorothea Lange was a talented portrait photographer—and those works are the subject of our exhibition Dorothea Lange: Seeing People. But it wasn’t just her technical abilities that made her images powerful. Lange connected with her subjects. She spoke with them about their lives and challenges.
Dorothea Lange was a documentary photographer who captured the lives of Americans from the New Deal through World War II.
May 20, 2024 · Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) is one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. The immense body of work she produced beginning in the early 1930s with "White Angel Breadline" (1933) and continuing until her death three decades later was ambitious and path breaking.
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