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.
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