Dorothea Lange Words And Pictures

Author : Sarah Meister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1633451046

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Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures by Sarah Meister Pdf

Towards the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) remarked that "all photographs-not only those that are so-called 'documentary,' and every photograph really is documentary and belongs in some place, has a place in history-can be fortified by words." Though Lange's career is widely heralded, this connection between words and pictures has received scant attention. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue provides a fresh approach to some of her best-known and beloved photographs, highlighting the ways in which these images first circulated in magazines, government reports, books, etc. An introductory text by curator Sarah Hermanson Meister will be followed by plates organized according to "words" from a variety of sources that expand our understanding of the photographs. The featured photographs will range from Lange's first engagement with documentary photography in San Francisco in the early-mid 1930s, including her iconic White Angel Breadline (1933), to landmark photographs she made for the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration) such as Migrant Mother (1936), powerful photographs made during World War II in California's internment camps for Japanese-Americans, major photo-essays published in Life magazine on Mormon communities in Utah (in 1954) and County Clare, Ireland (in 1955), and quietly damning photographs made in the Berryessa Valley in 1956-57, before the region was flooded by the construction of a dam intended to address California's chronic water shortages. Exhibition opens December 2019.

Author : Anne Whiston Spirn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226769844

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Daring to Look by Anne Whiston Spirn Pdf

A collection of illustrated, black-and-white photographs by American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange, depicting American migrant workers and sharecroppers during the Great Depression.

Author : Sam Contis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 1912339641

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Day Sleeper by Sam Contis Pdf

In this book, Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange's extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper - at once a symbol of respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Lange's ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange, and includes previously unseen photographs of her family, portraiture from her studio, and pictures made in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay. Day Sleeper will be featured alongside other works of Contis's in the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures at the Museum of Modern Art, February-May 2020.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 163345066X

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Lange by Anonim Pdf

The US was in the midst of the Depression when Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) began documenting its impact through depictions of unemployed men on the streets of San Francisco. Her success won the attention of Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration), and in 1935 she started photographing the rural poor under its auspices. One day in Nipomo, California, Lange recalled, she "saw and approached [a] hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet." The woman's name was Florence Owens Thompson, and the result of their encounter was seven exposures, including Migrant Mother. Curator Sarah Meister's essay provides a fresh context for this iconic work.

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393346374

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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon Pdf

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos—the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl—but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than one hundred images—many of them previously unseen and some formerly suppressed—Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.

Author : Barb Rosenstock
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635924480

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Dorothea's Eyes by Barb Rosenstock Pdf

USBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities Colonial Dames of America Book Award ALA/Amelia Bloomer Book List NCSS Notable Trade Book Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year “An excellent beginner’s resource for biography, U.S. history, and women’s studies.” —Kirkus Reviews Here is the powerful and inspiring biography of Dorothea Lange, one of the founders of documentary photography. After a childhood bout of polio left her with a limp, all Dorothea Lange wanted to do was disappear. But her desire not to be seen helped her learn how to blend into the background and observe. With a passion for the artistic life, and in spite of her family's disapproval, Lange pursued her dream to become a photographer and focused her lens on the previously unseen victims of the Great Depression. This poetic biography tells the emotional story of Lange's life and includes a gallery of her photographs, an author's note, a timeline, and a bibliography.

Author : Dorothea Lange,Paul Schuster Taylor
Publisher : Ayer Company Pub
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 0405068115

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An American Exodus by Dorothea Lange,Paul Schuster Taylor Pdf

Author : Tess Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1633451097

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Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange by Tess Taylor Pdf

Acclaimed American poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange's photography with a new work In Last West, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange's winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys, Lange photographed migrant laborers, Dust Bowl refugees, tent cities and Japanese American internment camps. Taylor's hybrid text collages lyric and oral histories against Lange's own journals and notebook fragments, framing the ways social and ecological injustices of the past rhyme eerily with those of the present. The result is a stunning meditation on movement, landscape and place. "Scintillatingly rendered by Taylor as conversation, meditation, road trip, and vivid documentary account, Last West tracks the not-so-distant past into the erupting present, taking on as many poetic forms as there are California topographies." -Forrest Gander, Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Author : Elizabeth Partridge
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781452131962

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Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge Pdf

Explore the life and work of a great twentieth-century photographer in this monograph and companion book to the eponymous PBS American Masters episode. This beautiful volume celebrates one of the twentieth century’s most important photographers, Dorothea Lange. Led off by an authoritative biographical essay by Elizabeth Partridge (Lange’s goddaughter), the book goes on to showcase Lange’s work in over a hundred glorious plates. Dorothea Lange is the only career-spanning monograph of this major photographer’s oeuvre in print, and features images ranging from her iconic Depression-era photograph “Migrant Mother” to lesser-known images from her global travels later in life. Presented as the companion book to a PBS American Masters episode that aired in 2014, this ebook offers an intimate and unparalleled view into the life and work of one of our most cherished documentary photographers. “In Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, Lange’s goddaughter Elizabeth Partridge, an accomplished and prolific author in her own right, presents a first-of-its-kind career-spanning monograph of the legendary photographer’s work, placing her most famous and enduring photographs in a biographical context that adds new dimension to these iconic images.” —Brain Pickings “Although she may be known best for her stirring portraits of Depression-era life, photojournalist Dorothea Lange had a career that spanned decades and continents. This new book was carefully curated by her goddaughter, Elizabeth Partridge, and represents the most comprehensive collection of Lange’s work to date.” —Reader’s Digest.com

Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780807517000

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Dorothea Lange by Carole Boston Weatherford Pdf

STARRED REVIEW! "Weatherford never talks down to her audience...using figurative language and rich vocabulary to tell her story...Green's debut as a picture-book illustrator is brilliant...A fine introduction to an important American artist."—Kirkus Reviews starred review Dorothea Lange saw what others missed. Before she raised her lens to take her most iconic photo, Dorothea Lange took photos of the downtrodden, from bankers in once-fine suits waiting in breadlines, to former slaves, to the homeless sleeping on sidewalks. A case of polio had left her with a limp and sympathetic to those less fortunate. Traveling across the United States, documenting with her camera and her fieldbook those most affected by the stock market crash, she found the face of the Great Depression. In this picture book biography, Carole Boston Weatherford's lyrical prose captures the spirit of the influential photographer.

Author : Dorothea Lange,Robert Coles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015042989429

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Photographs of a Lifetime by Dorothea Lange,Robert Coles Pdf

A collection of black-and-white photographs by early twentieth-century photographer Dorothea Lange, best known for her pictures of Depression-era America, featuring selections drawn from throughout her career; with an essay that provides information about Lange's life and work.

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756543976

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Migrant Mother by Don Nardo Pdf

Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Dorothea Lange photograph of a migrant mother during the Grea Depression.

Author : Therese Thau Heyman,Dorothea Lange,Sandra S. Phillips,John Szarkowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 0918471303

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Dorothea Lange by Therese Thau Heyman,Dorothea Lange,Sandra S. Phillips,John Szarkowski Pdf

Chronicles Lange's career with over 150 photographs, from her early work documenting the Depression to her photo-essays of the 1940s and 1950s depicting a changing American society--Cover.

Author : Henry Carroll
Publisher : Laurence King
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786279150

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Photographers on Photography by Henry Carroll Pdf

Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Photographers on Photography reveals what matters most to the masters. With enlightening text by Henry Carroll, author of the internationally bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, you'll discover how the giants of the genres developed their distinctive visual styles, the core ideas that underpin their practice and, most importantly, what photography means to you.

Author : Robert Adams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300229240

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Art Can Help by Robert Adams Pdf

A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that "encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence." Following an introduction, the book begins with two short essays on the works of the American painter Edward Hopper, an artist venerated by Adams. The rest of this compilation contains texts--more than half of which have never before been published--that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist. The pictures discussed are by noted photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Emmet Gowin, Dorothea Lange, Abelardo Morell, Edward Ranney, Judith Joy Ross, John Szarkowski, and Garry Winogrand. Several essays summon the words of literary figures, including Virginia Woolf and Czeslaw Milosz. Adams's voice is at once intimate and accessible, and is imbued with the accumulated wisdom of a long career devoted to making and viewing art. This eloquent and moving book champions art that fights against disillusionment and despair.