Dorothea Lange Research Paper
Dorothea
Lange
An American Photographer
Dorothea Lange, born May 26, 1895 and passed Oct 11, 1965 would best be described as an artistic and political intellectual, working systematically toward refining the emotional and political communicative power of her photography. She attended the New York Training School for Teachers from 1914 to 1917, and there decided to become a photographer, partly influenced by visits to the photographer Arnold Genthe. From 1917 to 1918 she attended a photography course run by Clarence
H. White at Columbia University, NY before moving to San Francisco in 1918, and setting up a successful portrait studio where she took works such as Clayburgh Children, San Francisco …show more content…
Other photographers of that time started to see her work as a new developing style. The most noticeable thing about Lange’s images is, although documenting pain, poor work conditions, poverty, and suffering, they are still very pleasing to the eye and yet educational at the same time. I think this is what makes her images so unique, and why, of the dozen or so photographers the FSA employed, her’s were always the most popular.
In 1939, in collaboration with Taylor, who provided the text, she published An American
Exodus, which dealt with the same social problems. In 1941 she was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship, and this allowed her to take a series of photographs of religious groups in the USA, such as those of the Amish people. In 1942 she worked for the War Relocation Authority and from 1943 to
1945 for the Office of War Information in San Francisco. Illness prevented her working from 1945 to
1951, after which she produced photographs of the Mormons and of rural life in Ireland for
Lange
An American Photographer
Dorothea Lange, born May 26, 1895 and passed Oct 11, 1965 would best be described as an artistic and political intellectual, working systematically toward refining the emotional and political communicative power of her photography. She attended the New York Training School for Teachers from 1914 to 1917, and there decided to become a photographer, partly influenced by visits to the photographer Arnold Genthe. From 1917 to 1918 she attended a photography course run by Clarence
H. White at Columbia University, NY before moving to San Francisco in 1918, and setting up a successful portrait studio where she took works such as Clayburgh Children, San Francisco …show more content…
Other photographers of that time started to see her work as a new developing style. The most noticeable thing about Lange’s images is, although documenting pain, poor work conditions, poverty, and suffering, they are still very pleasing to the eye and yet educational at the same time. I think this is what makes her images so unique, and why, of the dozen or so photographers the FSA employed, her’s were always the most popular.
In 1939, in collaboration with Taylor, who provided the text, she published An American
Exodus, which dealt with the same social problems. In 1941 she was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship, and this allowed her to take a series of photographs of religious groups in the USA, such as those of the Amish people. In 1942 she worked for the War Relocation Authority and from 1943 to
1945 for the Office of War Information in San Francisco. Illness prevented her working from 1945 to
1951, after which she produced photographs of the Mormons and of rural life in Ireland for