Dorothea Lange
Works
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Dorothea LangeStreet Demonstration, San Francisco, 1933
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Dorothea LangeMended Stockings, San Francisco, 1934
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Dorothea LangeWaterfront Protest, San Francisco, 1934
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Dorothea LangeFuneral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California, 1938
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Dorothea LangeThe Road West, New Mexico, 1938
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Dorothea LangeMigratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, AZ, 1940
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Dorothea LangeOn the Great Plains, near Winner, South Dakota, 1941
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Dorothea LangeCable Car, San Francisco, 1956
Exhibitions
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About Time
15 February - 30 March 2024Edwynn Houk Gallery presents About Time, an exhibition exploring the creative ways the concept of time, or the times, is interwoven into pictures, on view from February 15 to March 30, 2024.Read more -
ADAA Summer Online Viewing Room
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Dorothea Lange: Duplicate Prints from the 1966 Retrospective at the MOMA
18 September - 4 November 2002
News
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Dorothea Lange: Seeing People at the National Gallery of Art
5 November 2023 - 31 March 2024 1 February 2024"Dorothea Lange: Seeing People" is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. through March 31, exhibiting 101 photographs from the Great Depression to the mid-1960s.Read more -
The Bitter Years Exhibition at The Margulies Collection
Exhibition of photographs by Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans 1 November 2022Photographs from the Margulies Collection by Dorothea Lange and the full range of Walker Evans' work, together forming a collective memory of life during the Great Depression, are on view in "The Bitter Years" exhibition at the Margulies Collection in 2022-23.Read more -
The Met: The New Woman Behind the Camera
28 June - 3 October 2021 28 June 2021The New Woman of the 1920s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights the powerful expression of modernity by artists such as Dorothea Lange, Lillian Bassman, Dora Maar, Tina Modotti, and Lillian Bassman.Read more -
Photography's Last Century at The Met Fifth Avenue
10 March - 30 November 2020, now open to the public 12 October 2020An exhibition of more than sixty extraordinary photographs at The Met Fifth Ave includes masterpieces by Paul Strand, Dora Maar, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, and other leading artists.Read more -
Dorothea Lange’s photography, newly archived online at Oakland Museum, eternally relevant
Dorothea Lange in the San Francisco Chronicle 12 August 2020Poverty and racial marginalization, internment camps, and life during wartime - these are among the most famous themes documentary photographer Dorothea Lange chronicled in her...Read more -
Picturing America
Ilse Bing, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange & Edward Weston in MoMA 14 July 2020From the depths of the Great Depression, the impulse to capture the distinctive character of the United States was felt by photographers, poets, filmmakers, and...Read more -
Dorothea Lange at MOMA, and Online
DOROTHEA LANGE IN THE NEW YORKER 18 May 2020Two terrific shows that languish in darkened galleries at the Museum of Modern Art should not pass uncelebrated—or unvisited, to the extent that moma’s Web...Read more -
The Pioneering Women Photographers Who Helped Shape Their Art
Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott, Dorothea Lange & Ilse Bing in Christie's 30 April 2020The first half of the 20th century was a time of extraordinary change in the field of photography. By 1940, the Museum of Modern Art...Read more -
Virtual Views: Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, a Live Q&A
MOMA CURATOR SARAH MEISTER & SALLY MANN DISCUSS THE EXHIBITION 30 April 2020Artist Sally Mann and MoMA photography curator Sarah Meister discuss Dorothea Lange's enduring imagesRead more -
DOROTHEA LANGE’S PHOTOGRAPHY CAPTURED THE DESPAIR OF A COUNTRY DIVIDED BY INEQUALITY
Dorothea Lange in Art in America 2 March 2020Near the entrance to this exhibition of work by trailblazing twentieth-century documentary photographer Dorothea Lange we confront the image of a migratory cotton picker, whose...Read more -
Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange
DOROTHEA LANGE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES 13 February 2020John Szarkowski was about 13 when he saw an image by Dorothea Lange that “enormously impressed” him. After he had become the powerful director of...Read more -
How Dorothea Lange Defined the Role of the Modern Photojournalist
DOROTHEA LANGE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE 10 February 2020For the entire second half of Dorothea Lange’s life, a quotation from the English philosopher Francis Bacon floated in her peripheral vision: “The contemplation of...Read more -
Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Getty Museum
Featuring work by Abelardo Morell, Mona Kuhn, Valérie Belin, & more 17 December 2019The Getty Museum's curatorial team has unearthed an array of treasures that have never been shown here before.Read more -
Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography
Diane Arbus, Valérie Belin, Dorothea Lange & Vera Lutter in Exhibition at Pier 24 13 September 2019The first of two consecutive exhibitions that Pier 24 Photography will present on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Looking Back features photographers and subjects...Read more -
How Dorothea Lange Ended up Capturing the Great Depression — And Becoming an Influential Photographer
REVIEW OF NOVEL ON THE LIFE OF DOROTHEA LANGE IN THE WASHINGTON POST 1 February 2019When you think of photographer Dorothea Lange, you inevitably visualize “Migrant Mother,” the 1936 portrait of a woman and children that has come to represent...Read more -
Dorothea Lange: The Politics of Seeing
Dorothea Lange Exhibition at the Jeu de Paume 16 October 2018Featuring major works by world-renowned American photographer Dorothea Lange (1895, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1966, San Francisco, California), some of which have never been exhibited in...Read more -
MFA Boston Exhibition "(un)expected families"
Includes work by Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Abelardo Morell, Sally Mann & Harry Callahan 3 January 2018An exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, "(un)expected families," explores how photographers have chosen to represent loved ones and the concept of family through an alternative lens.Read more
Art Fairs