Image series 20 / 2020: Documentary Photographer
Dorothea Lange
10 May 2020
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By: Bettina Pfleging
On behalf of the government, some photographers traveled through the USA in the 1930s to document the devastating consequences of the Great Depression. The American documentary photographer Dorothea Lange was one of them. She photographed a wide variety of people and in her photographs emphasized the pride, strength, and need for independence of those photographed. Her entire work was characterized by her claim to teach people to see. She often condensed reality into vivid symbols of social conditions.
100 photographs by Dorothea Lange show online how versatile the socially committed artist was, who throughout her life consistently adhered to her objective, documentary style.
„Dorothea Lange. Words & Pictures“ – online
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dorothea Lange. La soupe populaire White Angel, Ausschnitt, 1933, tirée v. 1945, Épreuve à la gélatine argentique, 34 × 26,5 cm, papier 35,3 × 27,9 cm, Ottawa; Iconothèque, Université de Genève, Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie
Dorothea Lange. Depression, Ausschnitt, 1933; Virtuelle Diathek, Universität Hamburg, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar
Dorothea Lange. Scene Along Skid Row Howard Street, San Francisco, Ausschnitt, um 1934; Diathek online, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
Dorothea Lange. Dürre-Flüchtlinge, Kalifornien, Ausschnitt, 1936, Oakland; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Dorothea Lange. Migrant mother, 1936, Ausschnitt, 1936, papergelatin silver print, 33,9 × 26,9 cm, Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam
Dorothea Lange. Sozialamt in San Francisco, Ausschnitt, 1938; Diathek online, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
Dorothea Lange. A migrant agricultural worker in Holtville, Ausschnitt; DadaWeb, Universität zu Köln, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
Dorothea Lange. Migrant woman from Arkansas living in contractor’s camp near Westley, California, Ausschnitt, 1939; DadaWeb, Universität zu Köln, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
