LANGE, Dorothea

Über die amerikanische Fotografin, Dorothea LANGE (1895-1965)

Dorothea LANGE came to San Francisco in 1918, where she set up her own portrait studio. When unemployed and hungry people gathered outside her photo studio to feed the poor in the wake of the Great Depression in 1929, she went out to take photographs of the depressed people. In the mid-1930s, Roy Stryker, head of what would later become the Farm Security Administration (FSA), took notice of her and hired her to travel the U.S. for his department, photographically documenting rural living conditions. In the course of this work, she created the portrait photograph 'Migrant Mother' - one of the most widely distributed and exhibited photographs in history. In 1951 she participated in the 'Famiy of man' exhibition; in 1952 she was one of the co-founders of Aperture (along with Ansel ADAMS, Minor WHITE, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, among others).

Fotobücher von und über das Werk von 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, von Sally Stein); 'Day Sleeper' (2020, von Sam Contis)