Lange / Schloemann
- 1. by Becky Schloemann Dorothea Lange
- 2. Dorothea Lange Born May 26, 1895 in Hobokin, New Jersey From 1914 to 1917 Lange attended New York Training School for Teachers Lange’s decision to become a photographer was partially inspired by a course at Columbia University taught by Clarence H. White and her apprenticeship with photographer Arnold Genthe. Married to Maynard Dixon until 1935, then married Paul Taylor. Died on October 11, 1965
- 3. By 1919, Lange was running a successful portrait studio in San Francisco, California. Clayburgh Children, 1924
- 4. Dissatisfied with studio portraiture, in the late 1920’s Dorothea Lange began to photograph landscapes and plants. With the 1929 Stock Market Crash, she turned her attention to documentary photography. This move would eventually lead to her employment as a government photographer in 1935. The Road West , 1938
- 5. White Angel Bread Line , 1933 This image was the result of Dorothea Lange’s first venture into documentary photography. Many of Lange’s photographs depict bodies bent out of shape by labor, leaning on railings and being propped up.
- 6. Pea Contractor, 1935 “ You can’t do people in trouble without photographing people who are not it trouble, too. Because you have to have those contrasts.” – Dorothea Lange
- 7. Migrant Mother, 1936 This photo, which would become the iconic photo of the 1930’s, was taken while Lange was working for the Resettlement Administration. Florence Owens Thompson, the 32 year old mother of seven shown in this photograph, was a destitute pea picked in California.
- 8. Hoe culture , 1936 Lange’s work is characterized by its detached, documentary style.
- 9. Plantation Owner and his Field Hands , 1936
- 10. Mexican Migrant Fieldworker, 1937 Lange’s photographs of migrant workers inspired John Steinbeck as he wrote The Grapes of Wrath , and in the author’s non-fictional booklet on migratory workers, Their Blood Is Strong , he used some of her photos.
- 11. On the Road Toward Los Angeles, 1937 Lange’s early photographs forced people to acknowledge extreme poverty and brought national attention to the large gaps in America’s class structure. She made quite a few photographs that contrasted billboards with reality.
- 12. Ex-Slave with Long Memory , 1938 “ Lange’s… lone figures were bereft of any heroicizing vision – lost, trapped, enslaved by poverty.” – Mark Durden
- 13. Migratory Cotton Picker, 1940
- 14. I Am An American, March 13, 1942 In 1941, Dorothea Lange became the first woman to receive a photography grant when she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1942 she began working for the War Relocation Authority.
- 15. From 1943 to 1945 she worked for the Office of War Information in San Francisco. Argument in Trailer Court, 1944
- 16. From 1958 to 1959 she worked with Paul Schuster Taylor in East Asia. Lange’s photographs often exclude or limit the face of the subject, emphasizing the details, body language, and gestures. Indonesia, 1958
- 17. From 1962 to 1963 she worked in Egypt and the Middle East. Procession Bearing Food to the Dead, 1963
- 18. Works Cited "Lange, Dorothea." Grove Art Online . Oxford Art Online . 13 Mar. 2009. http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T049131 Durden, Mark. Dorothea Lange . New York: Phaidon, 2001. Spirn, Anne Whiston. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs & Reports from the Field . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Images Cited Lange, Dorothea. Argument in Trailer Court. 1944. Durden, Mark. Dorothea Lange . New York: Phaidon, 2001. Lange, Dorothea. Clayburgh Children . 1 9 24 . O akland Museum of C a lifornia, Oakland. 11 M ar. 2009 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/affiliates/images/omca/omca_LNG3138_1_2.jpg Lange, Dorothea. Ex-Slave with Long Memory . 1938. Durden, Mark. Dorothea Lange . New York: Phaidon, 2001. Lange, Dorothea. Hoe Culture. 1936. JSTOR. 09 Mar. 2008. http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch Path: Dorothea Lange, Images in ARTstor, Hoe Culture.
- 19. Images Cited Continued Lange, Dorothea. I Am An American . 1942. Durden, Mark. Dorothea Lange . New York: Phaidon, 2001. Lange, Dorothea. Indonesia . 1958. JSTOR. 09 Mar. 2008. http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch Path: Dorothea Lange, Images in ARTstor, Indonesia. Lange, Dorothea. Mexican Migrant Fieldworker . 1937. Durden, Mark. Dorothea Lange . New York: Phaidon, 2001. Lange, Dorothea. Migrant Mother . 1936. JSTOR. 09 Mar. 2008. http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch Path: Dorothea Lange, Images in ARTstor, Migrant Mother, Lange, Dorothea. Migratory Cotton Picker . 1940. JSTOR. 09 Mar. 2008. http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch Path: Dorothea Lange, Images in ARTstor, Migratory Cotton Picker Lange, Dorothea. On the Road Toward Los Angeles . 1937. Durden, Mark. Dorothea Lange . New York: Phaidon, 2001. Lange, Dorothe. Pea Contractor . 1935. Durden, Mark. Dorothea Lange . New York: Phaidon, 2001. Lange, Dorothea. Plantation Owner and his Field Hands . 1936. JSTOR. 09 Mar. 2008. http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch Path: Dorothea Lange, Images in ARTstor, Plantation Owner and his Field Hands.
- 20. Lange, Dorothea. Procession Bearing Food to the Dead . 1963. JSTOR. 09 Mar. 2008. http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch Path: Dorothea Lange, Images in ARTstor, Procession Bearing Food to the Dead. Lange, Dorothea. The Road West . 1938. JSTOR. 09 Mar. 2008. http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch Path: Dorothea Lange, Images in ARTstor, The Road West. Lange, Dorothea. White Angel Bread Line. 1933. JSTOR. 09 Mar. 2008. http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch Path: Dorothea Lange, Images in ARTstor, White Angel Bread Line. Partridge, Donald. Dorothea Lange. Durden, Mark. Dorothea Lange . New York:Phaidon, 2001. Images Cited Continued