29 Facts About Dorothea Lange

1.

Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to second-generation German immigrants Johanna Dorothea Lange and Heinrich Nutzhorn.

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Dorothea Lange learned to observe without intruding, a skill she would later use as a documentary photographer.

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Dorothea Lange graduated from the Wadleigh High School for Girls, New York City; by this time, even though she had never owned or operated a camera, she had already decided that she would become a photographer.

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Dorothea Lange began her study of photography at Columbia University under the tutelage of Clarence H White, and later gained informal apprenticeships with several New York photography studios, including that of Arnold Genthe.

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Dorothea Lange settled in San Francisco where she found work as a 'finisher' in a photographic supply shop.

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Dorothea Lange began to photograph these luckless folk, leaving her studio to document their lives in the streets and roads of California.

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Dorothea Lange roamed the byways with her camera, portraying the extent of the social and economic upheaval of the Depression.

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8.

Dorothea Lange was no longer a portraitist; but neither was she a photojournalist.

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Dorothea Lange developed personal techniques of talking with her subjects while working, putting them at ease and enabling her to document pertinent remarks to accompany the photography.

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Taylor interviewed subjects and gathered economic data while Dorothea Lange produced photographs and accompanying data.

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Dorothea Lange's work was distributed to newspapers across the country, and the poignant images became icons of the era.

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One of Dorothea Lange's most recognized works is Migrant Mother, published in 1936.

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In 1960, Dorothea Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph:.

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Dorothea Lange told me her age, that she was thirty-two.

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Dorothea Lange said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed.

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Dorothea Lange had just sold the tires from her car to buy food.

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Dorothea Lange reported the conditions at the camp to the editor of a San Francisco newspaper, showing him her photographs.

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Twenty-two of Dorothea Lange's photographs produced for the FSA were included in John Steinbeck's The Harvest Gypsies when it was first published in 1936 in The San Francisco News.

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In 1941, Dorothea Lange was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for achievement in photography.

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Dorothea Lange covered the internment of Japanese Americans and their subsequent incarceration, traveling throughout urban and rural California to photograph families required to leave their houses and hometowns on orders of the government.

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Dorothea Lange visited several temporary assembly centers as they opened, eventually fixing on Manzanar, the first of the permanent internment camps,.

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Much of Dorothea Lange's work focused on the waiting and anxiety caused by the forced collection and removal of people: piles of luggage waiting to be sorted; families waiting for transport, wearing identification tags; young-to-elderly individuals, stunned, not comprehending why they must leave their homes, or what their future held.

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In 1945, Ansel Adams invited Dorothea Lange to teach at the first fine art photography department at the California School of Fine Arts, now known as San Francisco Art Institute.

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Dorothea Lange's health declined in the last decade of her life.

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Dorothea Lange died of esophageal cancer on October 11,1965, in San Francisco, at age seventy.

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26.

Dorothea Lange was survived by her second husband, Paul Taylor, two children, three stepchildren, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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Three months after her death, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City mounted a retrospective of her work that Dorothea Lange had helped to curate.

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In 1984 Dorothea Lange was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.

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In 2003, Dorothea Lange was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.