Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia Oct 25, 2008
The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interest) dating from 1851 to 2008 by some 250 authors, including Lewis Hine, Eugne Atget, El Lissitzky, Herbert Bayer, Edward Steichen, Berenice Abbott, August Sander, Weegee, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Agust Centelles, Xavier Miserachs, Franco Pinna, Allan Sekula, Robert Adams, Martha Rosler... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Famous American images coming to classrooms Sep 25, 2008
Those pictures: Washington Crossing the Delaware, a painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851; Abraham Lincoln, an Alexander Gardner photo, 1865; and Migrant Mother and Children, Dorothea Lange s 1936 photo. Reproductions of those images and dozens more are coming to classrooms across the country in Picturing America, an initiative launched this year by the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Symbol of an Era Sep 17, 2008
The photo was Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," taken in 1936 at a pea pickers' labor camp in San Luis Obispo County and long considered the most representative and pertinent image of the Dust Bowl era ... The six photos she took of Thompson that day are part of the Dorothea Lange Archives at the Oakland Museum of California. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Read Indepth Article Aug 29, 2008
Her interest in modern and contemporary West Coast artists is demonstrated in her curation of The Art of Peter Voulkos, Dorothea Lange: Archive of an Artist, Transformation: The Art of Joan Brown, and Wayne Thiebaud. She spent fourteen years at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and then moved to the Oakland Museum of California where she is Senior Curator. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Fantastic voyage May 23, 2008
He owns images by Man Ray, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and Robert Mapplethorpe. John once told Rolling Stone: "Whenever I watch 'MTV Cribs,' I cringe. I think, 'Oh, my God, he has got no great art on the walls and 20 motorcycles and 20 cars. Sell the cars and buy a nice piece of art.". (Anchorage Daily News)
Linda McCartney's lives through a lens Apr 23, 2008
As Paul McCartney writes in the introduction to the exhibition catalogue: She loved Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Cartier-Bresson. She was very into Magnum photographers and into Edward Curtis and Robert Frank. (Times Online)
Someone else's memories Apr 8, 2008
Judy Annear, the gallery's photography curator, says some of the pictures "easily could have been taken by [the American photographers] Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans during the American Depression". It's a bold comment, potentially redefining photographic art as chance discovery, achieved equally by amateurs and professionals. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Travel briefs Apr 6, 2008
Through June 8, the museum is hosting a show called "Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," featuring prints by Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston. For more information, visit. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Lemoore schools use art to showcase American history Apr 3, 2008
A few classrooms away, fourth grade teacher Michele Stewart had her students guess the story of the woman in a 1936 photograph taken by Dorothea Lange. Many students, using a thesaurus to aide them in finding more expressive language, described the migrant woman in the photograph as "gloomy," "blue" and "melancholy." Some students guessed that the 32-year-old woman in the photograph was as old as 60 or 90. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Oakland school district receives reproductions of famed works of art spanning centuries Mar 31, 2008
CLICK TO ENLARGE Ken Trevarthan/Staff Photographer -- The classic 1936 Dorothea Lange photograph 'Migrant Mother' on display in the background Friday. Lake Crest Elementary School fifth-grader Maddie Flesner listens to school librarian Paul Hinson read aloud during library period. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Pictures of Faith Mar 27, 2008
"Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange hangs amid the other photographs at the Religious America in Government Photography exhibit at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art ... The photo, taken by Dorothea Lange, has become one of the icons of the Great Depression, and is one of a few photographs featured in Picturing Faith in spite of the absence of any religious relic. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Back To Life Mar 16, 2008
Jones, now a resident of Mill Valley, originally collaborated with fellow photographer Dorothea Lange on a Life magazine commission in 1956 to document the last year of the town of Monticello in Berryessa Valley before the area was flooded to create the lake. The work also appeared as a photo essay in a single issue of Aperture magazine in 1960. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Iconic photos by Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson to be auctioned Mar 15, 2008
Also that day, the auction house will offer a range of 20th-century photographs by such artists as Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Dorothea Lange and Robert Mapplethorpe. Two Penn masterpieces are expected to bring up to $300,000 and $350,000, respectively. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
We are the children Feb 9, 2008
The 113 photographs and one video in "Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children" come from local collectors Anthony and Beth Terrana, who are drawn to pictures of children because of the "pure sense of what they were seeing and feeling." The photographs, by artists including Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dorothea Lange, show that no matter the place, no matter the time, kids will be kids. Opening reception today 3-5 p.m. Exhibit up through April 27. (Boston Globe)
* Exile documented in black and white Nov 29, 2007
But the museum in Columbus was careful to put Roble's work into a broader context, including references to documentary photographers such as Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange, artists who used their pictures to try to change people's lives for the better. The exhibit includes one of Lange's most famous photos, a weary migrant mother holding one child while another tries to cuddle. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
'Shutterbugs': Chancellor Livingston exhibits student photos Jun 1, 2007
Photos by Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, among others, were observed and analyzed by the class. Students also studied the works of Billy Collins, Langston Hughes, and other poets of distinction. (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
Beware of mums with a camera May 3, 2007
Except perhaps Dorothea Lange or Margaret Burke-White. send photos, videos ffs to 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767 764), or us. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
American reflections Mar 2, 2007
It offers an eclectic range of famous faces, iconic images and portraits of average Americans by noted photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange and Richard Avedon. "The traveling exhibit represents the beginning of photography to contemporary times," said Jeanne Verhulst, associate curator of exhibitions at George Eastman House. (Pensacola News Journal)
Series tracks progress to senior thesis Mar 1, 2007
Issue date: 2/28/07 Section. While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. (UCD Advocate, CO)
Our Town: Faces of hope Feb 28, 2007
The photos evoke images of dustbowl refugees Dorothea Lange shot during the Great Depression of people impassively staring back at the camera, full of pride and pain. Her photos evoke images of dustbowl refugees Dorothea Lange shot during the Great Depression of passive faces staring back at the camera, full of pride and pain. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
More of this story Jan 13, 2007
Books and ConversationsThe Japanese American National Museum continues its scholarly Books and Conversations series with a Sunday, Jan. 21 discussion with Linda Gordon and Gary Y. Okihiro, authors of Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. The book features more than 100 of Lange's photographs, which were originally censored by the United States Army. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
