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1895 Hoboken, New Jersey - 1965 San Francisco, California. Known for: Documentary social realist photography.
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895 and studied photography in New York City before the First World War. In 1919, she moved to San Francisco, where she earned her living as a... Read full biography
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895 and studied photography in New York City before the First World War. In 1919, she moved to San Francisco, where she earned her living as a portrait photographer for more than a decade. During the Depression's early years Lange's interest in... Read full biography
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895 and studied photography in New York City before the First World War. In 1919, she moved to San Francisco, where she earned her living as a portrait photographer for more than a decade. During the Depression's early years Lange's interest in social issues grew and she began to photograph the city's dispossessed. A 1934 exhibition of these photographs introduced her to Paul Taylor, an associate professor of economics at the University of... Read full biography
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895 and studied photography in New York City before the First World War. In 1919, she moved to San Francisco, where she earned her living as a portrait photographer for more than a decade. During the Depression's early years Lange's interest in social issues grew and she began to photograph the city's dispossessed. A 1934 exhibition of these photographs introduced her to Paul Taylor, an associate professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, and in February 1935 the couple together documented migrant farm workers in Nipomo and the Imperial Valley for the California State Emergency Relief Administration. Copies of the reports Lange and Taylor produced reached Roy... Read full biography
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895 and studied photography in New York City before the First World War. In 1919, she moved to San Francisco, where she earned her living as a portrait photographer for more than a decade. During the Depression's early years Lange's interest in social issues grew and she began to photograph the city's dispossessed. A 1934 exhibition of these photographs introduced her to Paul Taylor, an associate professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, and in February 1935 the couple together documented migrant farm workers in Nipomo and the Imperial Valley for the California State Emergency Relief Administration. Copies of the reports Lange and Taylor produced reached Roy Stryker, who offered Lange a job with the Resettlement Administration in August 1935. Unlike the agency's other photographers, Lange d... Read full biography
Dorothea Lange - Artist Info
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Keywords (16)
Art Method
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Photography as Fine Art
Art Subject
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
- •Social Realism
Art School
- •California School of Fine Arts, Teacher
- •Clarence H. White School of Photography, Student
- •Columbia University Art Department, Student
Art Collection
- •Anna and Frank Hall Collection, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln
Added Description
- •Farm Security Administration Photographer
- •Married to an Artist
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
- •German
Exhibition of Museum
- •"Family of Man" Photo Exhibition, MOMA
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art