Santa Maria: On Migrant Mother’s Land:
A youthful obsession with Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother turns to frustration over how its subject, Florence Owens Thompson, an Indigenous woman, has been misperceived.
Santa Maria: On Migrant Mother’s Land:
A youthful obsession with Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother turns to frustration over how its subject, Florence Owens Thompson, an Indigenous woman, has been misperceived.
From W. Eugene Smith to Dorothea Lange, Olivia Laing considers the tensions between record and metaphor in the 1950s and ’60s.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-midcentury-photographers-who-balanced-reportage-with-artistry/
A new exhibition reveals how Lange’s concern for the dispossessed has never been more relevant.
via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/dorothea-lange-moma-exhibition/
A lyrical new book by the photographer Sam Contis collects lesser-known images from the great documentarian’s archive.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-different-side-to-dorothea-lange
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/day-sleeper/
She created one of the most enduring images of the 20th century, but she also created a new model for her discipline.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/t-magazine/dorothea-lange.html
“Migrant Mother” by photographer Dorothea Lange is an iconic image of the Great Depression and one of the most famous photos in US history. But did you
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/11/30/that-iconic-migrant-mother-photo-was-photoshopped/
The history behind Ms. Lange’s photograph of Florence Owens Thompson has intrigued academics and photographers for decades. But a new book sheds fresh light on the portrait’s little-explored details.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/lens/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother.html
An expert on the work of the Farm Security Administration continues to find new images and insights from Dorothea Lange.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/still-discovering-dorothea-lange/
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/migrant-mother/
I have always been under the impression that America has not given its female photographers the credit they deserve(d), and that it is maybe a bit too generous with its male ones.
Link: Review: Dorothea Lange – A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon – Conscientious
A highly political biography of a transformative figure in modern photojournalism, the documentary photographer Dorothea Lange.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Unshuttered Lens: Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Government Work, (1935-1945)”:
Was Dorothea Lange a cultural interpreter? Former Lange assistant, noted photographer, and protege Rondal Partridge, said, “You ask questions of great photographs, and great photographs ask questions of you.” (1) Lange’s photographic work “begs the question.”