Dorothea Lange 1895 1965 American Photographer Documentary Photographer

Dorothea Lange (1895 -1965) American Photographer Documentary Photographer Presentation by Gloria Bazan

Timeline of Dorothea Lange’s Life May 25, 1895 Dorothea is born in Hoboken, N. J. , to Henry Martin Nutzhorn and Joan Lange Nutzhorn. 1902 Dorothea is disabled by polio. She walks with a limp the rest of her life 1917 Takes Clarence White’s photography course at Columbia University. 1919 Opens her own portrait studio in San Francisco, CA. March 21, 1920 Dorothea marries Maynard Dixon, a western wilderness painter. June 1935 Lange hired as field investigator, photographer for Resettlement Administration by Roy Stryker. Later, renamed the Farm Security Administration (FSA). October 1935 Dorothea and Maynard divorce. December 1935 Dorothea marries Paul Schuster Taylor, professor of Economics at UC Berkeley.

Timeline of Dorothea Lange’s Life October 1939 Dorothea is let go from the FSA payroll. April-July 1942 Hired by War Relocation Authority (WRA). Lange documents the transfer of Japanese Americans from “assembly centers” to internment camp Manzanar. July-August 1964 Diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. 1964 -1965 John Szarkowski, curator of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (Mo. MA), proposes a major retrospective exhibit of Lange’s work. They begin work on the show. October 11, 1965 Dorothea dies of cancer at age 70. January 1966 Dorothea’s photos are exhibited at Mo. MA.

Dorothea Lange Title: White Angel Bread Line San Francisco, 1933

Dorothea Lange Title Migrant Mother Nipomo, CA, 1936

Dorothea Lange Guarding the Baggage, Oakland, 1942

“A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph. ” – Dorothea Lange “Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er. ” – Dorothea Lange

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What we can learn from Dorothea Lange? As photographers, we became professional “see-ers. ” A photograph is a suggestion of on idea that would provoke the viewer to agree, disagree, or think about it. A documentary photograph is an actual paper or document of an subject. As photographers we need to exhaust or asked ourselves if we have exhausted all the possibilities of a subject.

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