#Photographer Dorothea Lange

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Migrant Mother (1936) - photographed by Dorothea Lange.

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Objects: Old Fashioned Cameras (1/?)

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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Un-Death of a Valley: The Ghosts of Monticello ‘Reclaim’ the Inland Sea! 

Copper-plate etching with hard ground, aquatint, drypoint, burnishing, and linocut Trial proof on grey Rives BFK Plate 9”x12”, sheet 14”x18”

Deep in the almond orchards of the Sacramento Valley, a flash flood caused by an unusually late winter storm is threatening to claim this season’s crop. Floods here aren’t uncommon during the “wet season”, but as a deranged howling rises above the sound of the water coursing through the irrigation ditches, it becomes clear this is no average storm. No—the ghosts of Monticello have returned from their watery grave in the depths of the Lake Berryessa spillway and brought down the dam to enact their revenge on the agricultural industry that destroyed their home. It’s “hell and high water” for the residents of Solano County as the untethered Putah Creek roars across the valley floor; while overhead, documentary photographers Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones take snapshots from a crop-duster, bearing witness once more to the bloodied waters of California’s hydropolitics.

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Germaine Krull, Hände der Malerin Sonja Delaunay [Hands of the painter Sonja Delaunay], ca. 1930

Dorothea Lange, Bad Trouble over the Weekend, 1964

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MIGRANT MOTHER, NIPOMO, CALIFORNIA, 1936

Dorothea Lange

1895-1965 - attended the New York Training School for Teachers and from 1917 to 1918.

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Dorothea Lange, Mexican workers leaving for melon fields, Imperial Valley, California , June 1935

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En la época de La Gran Depresión que afectó a los EEUU, el gobierno necesitaba documentar la dramática situación económica de los ciudadanos de todo el país. Una de las fotógrafas que ayudó a esa tarea fue Dorothea Lange y nuevamente podemos ver la mirada sobre las mujeres, las familias y los trabajadores postergados durante ese álgido periodo.

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Dorothea Lange by Allison Adams

Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.

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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)

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Photo By: Dorothea Lange

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African American sharecropper’s feet with dimes around her ankles to prevent headaches, Hinds County, Mississippi.

📸 Dorothea Lange, June 1937.

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DEATH OF A VALLEY: "DOROTHEA LANGE PHOTOGRAPHING THE DESTRUCTION OF A CALIFORNIA LANDMARK" PIRKLE JONES // 1956 [selenium-toned silver gelatin print | 8 x 10"]

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Btw, they’re censoring the National Archives of the United States. The fucking Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan, has been altering photographic exhibits to make them “more palatable” to a wider audience. Alterations which include:

- Removing images of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders and activists and replacing them with images of Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley

- Altering and removing displays featuring the forced relocation of indigenous people in the United States

- Removing Dorothea Lange’s photographs of Japanese internment camps in the United States after WWII for being “too negative and controversial”

- Replacing a patent in the American Inventions exhibit display for birth control with a television patent instead

Several senior-level people have left the National Archives in the wake of Shogan’s directives. And, several employees have stated these changes are happening because Shogan’s advisors have raised concerns that conservative lawmakers could take issue with the materials in the exhibits and begin targeting the National Archives with punitive legislation.

You can read about this censorship in more detail here , here, and here.

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I'm sure you know this photo:

It was the last photo in a short 10-minute session. the photographer, Dorothea Lange, also took other images:

See the rest of the photo shoot and much more here:

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Fatherless migratory family camped behind gas station. The mother is trying to support three boys by picking pears. Just arrived from Minnesota. Oldest boy, age ten, helped carry ladder from tree to tree. Temperature 106 degrees when she returned from orchard. Yakima Valley, Washington, August 1939 in a photograph by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress.