About the American photographer, Dorothea LANGE (1895-1965)

Dorothea LANGE kam 1918 nach San Francisco, wo sie sich mit einem Porträstudio selbtsändig machte. Als sich im Zuge der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929 vor ihrem Fotostudio arbeitslose und hungrige Menschen zur Armenspeisung versammelten, ging sie hinaus, um von den bedrückten Menschen Fotoaufnahmen zu machen. Mitte der 1930er Jahre wurde Roy Stryker, Leiter der späteren Farm Security Administration (FSA) auf sie aufmerksam wurde und sie engagierte sie, um für seine Abteilung durch die USA zu reisen und die ländlichen Lebensverhältnisse fotografisch zu dokumentieren. Im Zuge dieser Arbeit entstand die Porträtfotografie 'Migrant Mother' - eine der am meist verbreiteten und am häufigsten ausgestellten Fotografien der Geschichte. 1951 beteiligte sie sich an der 'Famiy of man'-Ausstellung; 1952 gehörte sie zu den Mitbegründern von Aperture (zusammen u.a. mit Ansel ADAMS, Minor WHITE, Beaumont und Nancy Newhall).

Phto books by and on the work of Dorothea LANGE

'An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion' (1939, 1969, 1975); 'The Family of Man. Catalog' (1955, 1983, 1986, 2013, 2015); 'Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935–1939' (1980); 'Ireland' (1996, 1998); 'Photographs of a Lifetime' (1996);  'FSA. The American Vision' (2006); 'Impounded: Dorothea Lange And the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment' (2006); 'The Likes of Us' (2009); 'The Bitter Years' (2012); 'Grab a Hunk of Lightning' (2013); 'Politics of Seing' (2018); 'Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender' (2020, by Sally Stein); 'Day Sleeper' (2020, by Sam Contis)

This anthology contains 160 pictures by ninety female photographers to answer the question of whether there is a 'female gaze' in photography. The focus is on the four major subject areas of social reality, family, female body and virtual reality.
39,80 € * Weight 1.4 kg
'The Bitter Years: Edward Steichen and the FSA Photographs' contains all the photos from the original exhibition in the structure & sequence as conceived for the show. An important contribution, as there was no proper catalog for the show at the time.
120,00 € * Weight 2 kg
Out-of-print 'A Vision Shared' features the work of the 11 photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). 1st published in 1976 it was named one of the 100 most important books of the decade by the Association of American Publishers.
68,00 € * Weight 2 kg
'Day Sleeper' shows Dorothea LANGE through the eyes of Sam CONTIS, addressing resonances between the two ways of seeing. An unknown side with unseen photos of her family, studio portraits and photos taken in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay.
from 35,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
In the book 'The Likes of Us' the editor Stu Cohen brings together work by Walker EVANS, Ben SHAHN, Dorothea LANGE, Marion POST WOLCOTT as well as Russell LEE to create a complex, vivid overview of the FSA and how it evolved under Roy Stryker's leadership
0,00 € *
In the 1st volume of the DISCOURSE series 'Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender', cultural theorist Sally Stein takes up Dorothea LANGE's now famous portrait and proposes to see it as a disturbing image for women's conflicted relationship to home and the world.
9,50 € *
With photo works by: Ansel ADAMS, ÁLVAREZ BRAVO, BISCHOF, BOURKE-WHITE, BRANDT, BRUNNER, Robert CAPA, CARTIER-BRESSON, FRANK, GRÖBLI, HAAS, HORVAT, KALISCHER, Dorothea LANGE, SANDER, Gotthard SCHUH, William Eugene SMITH TUGGENER, VISHNIAC among others.
0,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
This out-of-print catalog volume 'FSA. The American Vision by Gilles Mora set the standard for photojournalism for years with this unusual collection of documentary photographs by Walker EVANS, Dorothea LANGE, Arthur ROTHSTEIN, Jack DELANO & Gordon PARKS
98,00 € *
In DISCOURSE book series, cultural theorists, curators or artists examine a topic, a work of art or an idea in an illustrated text. This episode includes titles by Sally Stein, Duncan Forbes, Alec Soth & Jörg Colberg about Dorothea LANGE, Lewis BALTZ...
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'Kiosk. A History of Photojournalism 1839-1973' by Robert LEBECK & Bodo von Dewitz (ICP Infinity Award 2002) leads you in nine chapters through the eras of international photojournalism and offers an overview of the topics of past decades and centuries.
58,00 € * Weight 2 kg