Dorothea Lange

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• SOURCE: Insider
  5/10/2023
  

  The US Government Hired Dorothea Lange to Document the Japanese Internment, then Censored Her Photos

  The War Relocation Authority hired Lange and Ansel Adams, hoping to polish the public image of internment. Lange's photos, which revealed the harsh conditions of camps and the human tragedy of removal from homes and neighborhoods, were shelved. 

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• 10/24/2021
  

  Portrait of the Artist as a Businesswoman: Dorothea Lange’s Lost San Francisco Years

  by Jasmin Darznik

  Dorothea Lange's early work as a portrait photographer for San Francisco's elite seems at odds with her famous documentary work of the Depression. But that work sharpened her sense of aesthetics and of her own place in the world, foundations of her more famous later period.

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• SOURCE: JStor Daily
  8/2/2021
  

  The Photographers Who Captured the Great Depression

  Intended as a promotional program for New Deal agricultural programs, the Farm Security Adminstration's sponsorship of Gordon Parks, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and other photographers sparked an aesthetic revolution. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11/17/2020
  

  Whitewashing the Great Depression (Review)

  Three new books describe the role of administrator Roy Stryker of the Farm Security Administration in filtering the photographic work of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Russell Lee to emphasize the depression's burden on rural whites. 

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• SOURCE: The Paris Review
  3/31/2020
  

  Dorothea Lange’s Angel of History

  by Rebecca Solnit

  As is so often the case with Dorothea Lange’s photographs and maybe with nearly all photographs, the meaning of the image comes in part from beyond the frame.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/29/2020
  

  Following Dorothea Lange's Notebooks

  by Tess Taylor

  As I visited encampments, internment centers and small agricultural towns, I used Ms. Lange’s images and words as a lens to help refract the messy complexity of California’s present.