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Dorothea Lange: 10 of the most iconic portraits from a lost US
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An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington explores the work of legendary photographer Dorothea Lange, who captured some of the most striking images ever shot of American poverty, hardship and resilience in the 20th Century.
Over the course of her year career, Dorothea Lange created some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th Century. From White Angel, Breadline to her poignant works on Japanese Americans denied their rights during World War Two, Lange embodied the humanity of the people caught up in events beyond their control.
Lange began her career as a studio photographer and first experimented outside the studio on trips with her then-husband, the artist Maynard Dixon. But it was the Great Depression that spurred her to turn to documentary photography. "In the early days of the Depression in San Francisco she began to see peop
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Dorothea Lange
American
, Hoboken, New Jersey
, San Francisco, Bay Area
Biography
Dorothea Lange was a successful portrait photographer in San Francisco when the lager market crashed in As her business diminished with the nedstämdhet, she began photographing the world around her, including labor strikes and protests. Then married to renowned California landscape painter Maynard Dixon, Lange became increasingly politicized.
She funnen work with a series of relief organizations, most significantly the Resettlement Agency, later called the Farm Security ledning. On one of her early government jobs she met the economist Paul Taylor, whom she would later marry and with whom she would collaborate on several projects, including the book An American Exodus. Her photograph Migrant Mother has become an icon of the nedstämdhet era, embodying the human toll exacted during those bleak years.
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Dorothea Lange
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Dorothea Lange
American photojournalist (–)
Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, &#;– October 11, ) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.[1]
Early life
[edit]Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey[2][3] to second-generation German immigrants Johanna Lange and Heinrich Nutzhorn.[4] She had a younger brother named Martin.[4] Two early events shaped Lange's path as a photographer. First, at age seven she contracted polio, which left her with a weakened right leg and a permanent limp.[2][3] "It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, and humiliated me," Lange once said of her altered gait. "I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force