Dorothea Lange - Hardcover

Durden, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0714846198 ISBN 13: 9780714846194

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2006

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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) is one of the most famous documentary photographers of all time. In 1935, tired of studio portraiture, she began working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), documenting the disastrous migration of farming families to the west. She created many of the images that define the Depression in the United States in the popular imagination.

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Author Details

Mark Durden is an artist, writer and lecturer. He has written extensively on photography and contemporary art for a number of journals, including Creative Camera, Portfolio and Art Monthly. Together with Craig Richardson he curated the exhibition `Face On' and also co-edited the accompanying book Face On: Photography as Social Exchange (2000). He is currently Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Photography at the University of Derby.

Photographer details

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was a highly acclaimed social realist photographer who recorded one of the most important historical periods in American social history. Her career began in 1916 taking portraits in a studio. During the Depression she changed her career path and started to take pictures of people on the streets of San Francisco. In 1935, she was hired by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to formally document the Depression, where she established her photojournalistic talent for simultaneously emphasizing the laborer's struggle between dignity and poverty. She also photographed other historic events in America such as Japanese Internment Camps and the 1945 United Nations Conference.

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'Lange's work defines an era of destitution and drought, and still resonates even now. This is the perfect introduction to one of the world's greatest photojournalists. Practical Photography 'Lange was the first woman to be awarded the Guggenheim Photography Fellowship and this book showcases her most famous work, an arresting 55-picture, chronologically ordered documentation of the lives of migrant workers during the Great Depression.' The Independent

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