Sunday, July 19, 2009
Groping On Japanese Subway
Dorothea Lange: Photographer of people
Dorothea Lange New Jersey 1895 - 1965 California 
Village Photographer. 
The Photographer of the village, as she had stated on his business card was one of the initiators of social documentary and a pioneer in the report. Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken (New Jersey - USA) in 1895 and fall
ece in San Francisco (California - USA) in 1965.
With only seven years contracted polio, a disease that damages the development of the right leg, crippled by this fact of life.
In 1917 studied at the Clarence White School (New York), the tendency of the pictoral. [1] Although the true identity of his work were to give his career as a reporter, beginning to exercise two years later, in 1919 that opened a studio in San Francisco.
Previously, in 1918, is dedicated to going around the world. Fans who will combine reporter with his work later.
In 1920 she married her first husband, painter Maynard Dixon, who has two children.
in Taos, Mexico, he met Paul Strand, who
have a certain influence on his work. It also establishes relations with Imogen Cunningham, who along with Margrette Mather and Laura Gilpin are examples of a modern pictorial and hybrid that combines the bold forms of modernity and hermetic aestheticism and soft atmospheric painting.
Perhaps influenced by his frequent contacts, since 1933, with the Group f/64 (also called 64f) begins to reflect their environment through documents Photo of the working conditions of the era, with particular interest in capturing the most affected by the great American pressure for the 30's.
in 1934 offers his first exhibition in the gal
pipelining Willard Van Dyke. And a year later transferred his residence to California at Berkeley, Berkey, after she married Paul Taylor.
From year 1935 to 40 was working for the administration of Franklin Delano Roosbelt, through its program of economic recovery, the New Deal and especially by the Farm Security Admnistration (FSA), whose photographic section was far beyond record the activities of this and established an impressive graphic file covering all aspects of life in the countryside.
In this time that Lange and her husband prepared "to American Exodus, A Record of Human Erosion." Book, published in 1939, combining photographs with texts that provide an analysis of migration and microfilms which contained fragments of conversation heard at the time the photograph was taken.
the mid-40's who had been hired Lange to document the Japanese Americans in camps is censored by Relocation Authority War to show the internment camps of Japanese Americans.
From this date begins to have problems with their health, a fact that determines your camera lens was tipping issues close as family.
In the early 50's, while his health permit him, he did various jobs for magazines in Latin America, and Africa as well as a study of the California judicial system.
In 1964, upon learning that he suffers from cancer, is dedicated to what would be his last two projects: to organize a retrospective of his work at MoMA and has documented his life. Through these writings explain his ideas gathered photographic form and manner
to see, feel and live photography. They describes itself as a totally purist photographer and advocate of straight photography, objectively and without passing through any type of manipulation
Lange did not suffer the limitations of large and heavy cameras, said:
On 11 died October 1965 in San Francisco.
The real success of the work of Dorothea Lange does not occur until 1972, when the Whitney Museum features 27 works in the exhibition "Executive Order 9066" designed to show
Japanese internment. Then-New York Times critic, AD Coleman, Lange described the photographs as "documents of such high level that penetrate the feelings of victims and the facts of the crime."
Lange left approximately 25,000 negatives that are now part transcendent American history
In 1917 studied at the Clarence White School (New York), the tendency of the pictoral. [1] Although the true identity of his work were to give his career as a reporter, beginning to exercise two years later, in 1919 that opened a studio in San Francisco.
Previously, in 1918, is dedicated to going around the world. Fans who will combine reporter with his work later. In 1920 she married her first husband, painter Maynard Dixon, who has two children.
in Taos, Mexico, he met Paul Strand, who
have a certain influence on his work. It also establishes relations with Imogen Cunningham, who along with Margrette Mather and Laura Gilpin are examples of a modern pictorial and hybrid that combines the bold forms of modernity and hermetic aestheticism and soft atmospheric painting.
Perhaps influenced by his frequent contacts, since 1933, with the Group f/64 (also called 64f) begins to reflect their environment through documents Photo of the working conditions of the era, with particular interest in capturing the most affected by the great American pressure for the 30's.
in 1934 offers his first exhibition in the gal
pipelining Willard Van Dyke. And a year later transferred his residence to California at Berkeley, Berkey, after she married Paul Taylor.
From year 1935 to 40 was working for the administration of Franklin Delano Roosbelt, through its program of economic recovery, the New Deal and especially by the Farm Security Admnistration (FSA), whose photographic section was far beyond record the activities of this and established an impressive graphic file covering all aspects of life in the countryside.
In this time that Lange and her husband prepared "to American Exodus, A Record of Human Erosion." Book, published in 1939, combining photographs with texts that provide an analysis of migration and microfilms which contained fragments of conversation heard at the time the photograph was taken.
the mid-40's who had been hired Lange to document the Japanese Americans in camps is censored by Relocation Authority War to show the internment camps of Japanese Americans.
From this date begins to have problems with their health, a fact that determines your camera lens was tipping issues close as family.
In the early 50's, while his health permit him, he did various jobs for magazines in Latin America, and Africa as well as a study of the California judicial system.
In 1964, upon learning that he suffers from cancer, is dedicated to what would be his last two projects: to organize a retrospective of his work at MoMA and has documented his life. Through these writings explain his ideas gathered photographic form and manner
to see, feel and live photography. They describes itself as a totally purist photographer and advocate of straight photography, objectively and without passing through any type of manipulation
Lange did not suffer the limitations of large and heavy cameras, said:
On 11 died October 1965 in San Francisco.
The real success of the work of Dorothea Lange does not occur until 1972, when the Whitney Museum features 27 works in the exhibition "Executive Order 9066" designed to show
Japanese internment. Then-New York Times critic, AD Coleman, Lange described the photographs as "documents of such high level that penetrate the feelings of victims and the facts of the crime." Lange left approximately 25,000 negatives that are now part transcendent American history
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