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An Empathetic Eye: The Photography of Dorothea Lange |
| Section: THE ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Author: Darwin Marable |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 5/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,029 Words, 12,807 Characters |
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Documentary photography has existed since the early days of photography and immediately brings to mind the likes of John Thomson, who photographed London's poor in the 1870s; Jacob Riis, who prowled the slums of New York at night with a camera, using flashlight powder for illumination, in the 1880s; and Lewis Hine, who captured on film America's immigrants and children working in factories during the first years of this century. All were concerned with social reform.
The photographers of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which was created in 1935, are probably more familiar. However, Dorothea Lange was working in San Francisco as early as 1932 and on through the Great Depression to almost single-handedly redefine this genre.
Documentary photographers collect facts and provide e...
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...ccomplishment she will be remembered as one of the major documentary photographers of the twentieth century.
The exhibition Dorothea Lange: American Photographs will be at the International Center of Photography, New York, through April 30; it then travels to the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., May 20--August 27; and the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, September 30--November 26.
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