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Title: Dorothea Lange


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  • Dorothea Lange
  • May 26, 1895 October 11, 1996

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Dorothea Lange
  • In 1902 at age seven, Lange had polio. There was
    no cure for it but she came out of it with a
    weakened right leg and a
  • dropped foot.
  • In 1907, he father leaves her and her family
  • behind and she never saw him again.
  • Six years later, she graduates from Wadleigh
  • High School in Harlem and moves on to a
  • New York training school for teachers.
  • After school, she received her first job from
  • the famous Arnold Genthe, and thats how it
  • all started.

3
Famous Photos
  • This is probably Langes most famous picture.
  • It was taken during the depressions
  • While walking through a pea pickers camp Lange
    noticed this thirty-two year old woman with her
    seven children. There was no work and they were
    living on wild birds caught by the children. She
    could not move on, she told Lange, because she
    had sold the tires from her car for food.
  • This photo really shows the hardships of the
    depression and the physical and emotional pain
    people went through.

Migrant Mother, 1936, 15 3/4" X 20"
4
Quotes
  • One should really use the camera as though
    tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
  • Photography takes an instant out of time,
    altering life by holding it still.
  • Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the
    subject must be something you truly love or truly
    hate
  • While there is perhaps a province in which the
    photograph can tell us nothing more than what we
    see with our own eyes, there is another in which
    it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to
    see.
  • While there is perhaps a province in which the
    photograph can tell us nothing more than what we
    see with our own eyes, there is another in which
    it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to
    see

5
Famous Photos
  • This picture was taken in San Francisco while a
    man was waiting in the line for his ration of
    bread.
  • Titled after a San Francisco widow, Lois Jordan,
    who became known as the "white Angel" when she
    established a soup kitchen to feed the needy and
    hungry.
  • Lange would usually take pictures of people who
    were going through hard times. She didnt take to
    many happy pictures.

White Angel Bread Line, 1933,
h 14 x w 11 in / h 35.6 x w 27.9 cm
6
Famous Photos
  • Dorothea Lange worked for the American
    governments Farm Security Administration program
    during the Great Depression of the 1930's. The
    F.S.A. was set up to relieve poverty in rural
    areas but also involved photographing conditions
    faced by displaced farmers who had been hit by
    the Depression and by drought. Thats how she got
    the chance to take most of these pictures.

Hoe Culture, 1936
6 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches
7
Famous Photos
  • The I AM AN AMERICAN sign appeared on December 8,
    1941, on a grocery store in Oakland, California,
    one day after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan.
    The owner of the store was a Japanese American
    and graduate of the University of California,
    Berkeley.

I am an American, 1941
8
Famous Photos
  • Lange's "Migratory Children Living in 'Rambler's
    Park'" was taken in 1939, in Yakima Valley, Wash.
  • She would mostly just take pictures where ever
    she was. She would ask the people if she could
    photograph them. When they said sure, she would
    walk around until they forgot she was there so
    she could get a real picture.

, 1939
9
Favorite Picture
  • This is my favorite photograph by Dorothea Lange
    . I like how the house takes up the whole picture
    and how theres a lot going on. There is also a
    lot of texture in this picture. I also like how
    this people in this picture are so laid back and
    it just looks like its a slow day at the gas
    station.

Crossroads 400 x 290 - 35k - jpg 1939
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References
  • http//www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/doroth
    ea_lange.html
  • http//teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/By
    rnes-famous/DOROTIME.html
  • http//www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item5510
  • http//picturingamerica.neh.gov/downloads/pdfs/Res
    ource_Guide_Chapters/PictAmer_Resource_Book_Chapte
    r_18B.pdf
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