“Santa Fe, New Mexico. Gas station price analysis # SantaFe # NewMexico # State # UncleSam # California # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177716 81/”
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Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange 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.
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culture · American photojournalist (1895–1965) · journalist · photojournalist · photographer · documentarian · artist · also Dorothea Lange, Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn, Dorothea Lange Taylor, Dorothea Nutzhorn, Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Dixon Taylor Lange, Lange
Born 25 May 1895 · Died 11 October 1965 · Q230673
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Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farmer who has small plot in rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers on outskirts of Salinas, California # Salinas # California # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177718 04/
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2026· 10 entries
“Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farmer who has small plot in rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers on outskirts of Salinas, California # Salinas # California # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177718 04/”
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“Rural Rehabilitation Administration client with the Rehabilitation Administration county agent. Outside of Hayward, California # Hayward # California # DorotheaLange # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177597 89/”
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“Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement # Teutonic # NewMexico # DorotheaLange # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177595 35/”
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“Off for the melon fields (Mexican labor). Imperial Valley, California # Mexican # ImperialValley # California # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177595 30/”
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“El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent applied on purchase. Father: carpenter. California # ElMonte # California # America # American # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177597 14/”
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“Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico. These people are to be resettled, their land to revert to cattle range # NewMexico # DorotheaLange # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177595 38/”
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“El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California # ElMonte # California # DorotheaLange # American # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177595 72/”
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“El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in family. Girl eleven. Father truck driver. Earns ninety-five dollars monthly, pays fifteen dollars and twenty cents rent to apply on purchase. California # ElMonte # ninety -fivedollars # California # America # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177595 71/”
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“Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees # Bakersfield # California # DustBowl # ЗЕЙПАЯ # Russian # undefined # photography # DorotheaLange https://www. loc.gov/pictures/item/20177592 25/”
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2024· 1 entry
Artnet: Art Bites: The Dorothea Lange Photos That Were ‘Impounded’ for Decades
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo: Famed photographer Dorothea Lange's images of Japanese internment during WWII was censored by the US government that also hired her to document it in the first place
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2020· 3 entries
Hyperallergic: Dorothea Lange's Humanist Vision
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Time: The Art of Documentary Photography: Dorothea Lange Reconsidered
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The Washington Post: Dorothea Lange used photography to make an ugly world beautiful. She used words to give that beauty meaning.
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2019· 2 entries
Popular Photography: How Dorothea Lange created her Migrant Mother photo
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Rafael Blanco painted a mural of Lange outside of a photography building in Roseville, California
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2015· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: How the Photography of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams Told the Story of Japanese American Internment
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2014· 2 entries
Forbes: Iconic Photographer Dorothea Lange Profiled In New PBS Documentary
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Yahoo: Dorothea Lange’s Photos of the Dust Bowl
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2008).
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Was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts
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2006· 1 entry
An elementary school was named in her honor in Nipomo, California, near the site where she had photographed Migrant Mother
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2003).
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Lange was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1984· 1 entry
Lange was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
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1965· 2 entries
Died 1965-10-11.
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“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.”
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1960· 1 entry
Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph:
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1954· 1 entry
And featuring the attorney Martin Pulich, grew out of Lange's interest in how poor people were defended in the court system, which by one account, grew out of personal experience associated with her brother's arrest and
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1952· 1 entry
Lange co-founded the photography magazine Aperture
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1945· 1 entry
Ansel Adams invited Lange to teach at the first fine art photography department at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA), which became San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1941).
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Lange became the first woman to be awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography
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1935· 1 entry
And on December 6 she married economist Paul Schuster Taylor, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley
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1920· 1 entry
Married the noted western painter Maynard Dixon, with whom she had two sons, Daniel, born in 1925, and John, born in 1930
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1918· 2 entries
Studied at Columbia University (1917–1918).
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Lange left New York with a female friend intending to travel the world, but her plans were disrupted upon being robbed
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-05-25.
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