The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Dorothea Lange, the photographer responsible for many of the most affecting images of poverty during the Depression, was “a bit of a social snob,” according to Gordon’s absorbing biography, and for the better. In the twenties, Lange was San Francisco’s top society photographer, and . . .
The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
George Tice [1938-] occupies a position, historically, that follows closely the Second Generation of photographers in a sequence that begins roughly with the F64 Group (which included Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Alma Levenson, Brett Weston, and a half dozen others), Dorothea Lange and Paul Strand, in the early Thirties, followed by a second wave that included Morley Baer, Brett Weston...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Dorothea Lange A Life Beyond Limits By Linda Gordon (W.W. Norton; 536 pages; $35) Dorothea Lange is back in the public eye. Protesters in Chicago this fall denouncing giant banks carried signs showing "Migrant Mother," Lange's 1936 photograph of a gaunt,...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Jonathan Raban Hopi man, 1920s; photograph by Dorothea Lange (Oakland Museum of California) Some visual footnotes to my piece on Dorothea Lange in the new issue of The New York Review . I wrote about her work for the Farm Security Administration and her famous photograph Migrant Mother , and also discussed other areas of her work that may be less well known to readers, including this portrait of a...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
A highly political biography of a transformative figure in modern photojournalism, the documentary photographer Dorothea Lange.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/02/2009
Photographer Sean McFarland isn't trying to fool you, but to look at his pictures on display at SF Camerawork is to not know exactly what you are looking at. Inspired by landscape photographers like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans and the peculiar qualities...
The Humane-Rights-Agenda Blog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
ART: OPENINGS Dorothea Lange Work by influential, Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange will be exhibited at Sacramento State's Library Gallery. When: Tu-Sa, 10am-5pm through 3/7 Posted by: Craig Ages: All ages For more information about this activity, contact Web site: http://www.csus.edu Tags: Art: Openings , Art: Galleries , All ages clubs , Art galleries , Concert hall , Restaurants and cafes...
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