Lange, Dorothea

Overview

Works:	539 works in 1,055 publications in 3 languages and 35,652 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Pictorial works Biographies Illustrated works Exhibition catalogs Juvenile works Literature History Nonfiction television programs Documentary television programs
Roles:	Author, Photographer, Illustrator, Other, Artist, Honoree, Dedicatee, Collector, Interviewee
Classifications:	TR140.L3, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Dorothea Lange

California on the breadlines : Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the making of a New Deal narrative by Jan Goggans( )
Dorothea Lange : a life beyond limits by Linda Gordon( Book )
Photographs of a lifetime by Dorothea Lange( Book )
Dorothea Lange : a photographer's life by Milton Meltzer( Book )
Dorothea Lange by Dorothea Lange( Book )

Dorothea Lange : American photographs by Therese Thau Heyman( Book )
Dorothea Lange, grab a hunk of lightning : her lifetime in photography by Elizabeth Partridge( Book )
Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth by Barb Rosenstock( Book )
Dorothea Lange and the documentary tradition by Karin E Becker( Book )
The photographs of Dorothea Lange by Dorothea Lange( Book )
Perpetual mirage : photographic narratives of the desert West by May Castleberry( Book )
Dorothea Lange by Dorothea Lange( Book )
Learning to see : a novel of Dorothea Lange, the woman who revealed the real America by Elise Hooper( Book )
Migrant mother : how a photograph defined the Great Depression by Don Nardo( Book )
Dorothea Lange : the photographer who found the faces of the Depression by Carole Boston Weatherford( Book )
Defining eye : women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales( Book )
Dorothea Lange by Dorothea Lange( Book )
Dorothea Lange by Mike Venezia( Book )
Dorothea Lange by Robyn Turner( Book )
She did it! : 21 women who changed the way we think by Emily Arnold McCully( Book )

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Most widely held works by Dorothea Lange

Restless spirit : the life and work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge( Book )

6 editions published between 1998 and 2002 in English and held by 1,812 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms

Impounded : Dorothea Lange and the censored images of Japanese American internment by Dorothea Lange( Book )

7 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 1,430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Censored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. This indelible work of visual and social history confirms Dorothea Lange's stature as one of the twentieth century's greatest American photographers. Presenting 119 images--the majority of which have never been published--this book evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s and the stark reality of the internment camps. Nationally known historians Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro narrate the saga of Japanese American internment: from life before Executive Order 9066 to the abrupt roundups and the marginal existence in the bleak, sandswept camps.--From publisher description

Executive order 9066; the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans by Maisie Conrat( Book )

5 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 1,136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A pictorial representation, in black and white, of Japanese internment camps during World War ii, this book has over 100 pages of pictures of the evacuation and internment, taken by Dorothea Lange and other photographers, plus a text providing a brief historical account of events leading up to the internment. (Sb)

Daring to look : Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field by Anne Whiston Spirn( Book )

14 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 1,071 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume presents never-before-published photos and captions from American documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange's (1895-1965) fieldwork in California, the Pacific Northwest, and North Carolina during 1939. Best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. Lange's images of squatter camps, benighted farmers, and stark landscapes are stunning, and her captions -- which range from simple explanations of settings to historical notes and biographical sketches -- add unexpected depth, bringing her subjects and their struggles unforgettably to life, often in their own words

Dorothea Lange : grab a hunk of lightning( Visual )

3 editions published in 2014 in English and held by 987 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Profiles American photographer Dorothea Lange, who came to the attention of the world with her photographs documenting the Great Depression, and achieved lasting fame in the post-War years

Dorothea Lange--a visual life by Elizabeth Partridge( Book )

5 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 876 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lange is famous for her portraits of Dust Bowl Okies, black tenant farmers and incarcerated Japanese Americans

Dorothea Lange looks at the American country woman : a photographic essay by Dorothea Lange( Book )

19 editions published between 1967 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 758 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dorothea Lange : life through the camera by Milton Meltzer( Book )

5 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 708 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers and rural poverty helped bring important social reforms

An American exodus; a record of human erosion in the Thirties by Dorothea Lange( Book )

17 editions published between 1939 and 1975 in English and French and held by 594 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Exodus from the land is not new. Since the Middle Ages in Europe an unending stream of rural folk has fed the growth of cities and furnished manpower for rising manufactures. In America throughout our national history people have migrated in a double stream. One current, itself a part of the 500-year old stream of Europe, has drawn off surplus population from land already settled in order to urbanize and industrialize the United States. The other current, described a century ago by the Frenchman de Toqueville, has moved steadily westward with "the solemnity of a providential event... like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of Gof." Its goal was a piece of unoccupied domain for each family to assute a living through tillage of the soil. The generation of our fathers saw the end of the wester frontier of free land. And it is now a full decade since the doors of our factories were open wide to boys from the farms. Indeed, in the face of industrial collapse in 1929 millions of Americans sought refuge in recoil to the land from which they had sprung... Now our people are leaving the soil again. They are being expelled by powerful forces of mans and of Nature. They crowd into cities and towns near the plantations. Once more great numbers of landseekers thek west. This contemporary exodus is our theme. It attains its most dramatic form on the deltas, the prairies, and the plains of the South, and in the tide of people which moves to the Pacific Coast. But this time the cities and tows are already burdened with unemployed, and opportunity upon the land is sharply restricted

Un-American : the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II by Richard Cahan( Book )

1 edition published in 2016 in English and held by 582 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1942 more than 109,000 Japanese Americans, including 70,000 U.S. citizens, were picked up and sent to incarceration centers, most for the duration of the war. It was the shame of America-- and it was documented on film. Cahan and Williams provide a visual history which includes interviews with many of the people reflecting on their experiences

An American exodus : a record of human erosion by Dorothea Lange( Book )

25 editions published between 1939 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First published in 1939, An American Exodus is one of the masterpieces of the documentary genre. Produced by incomparable documentary photographer Dorothea Lange with text by her husband, Paul Taylor, An American Exodus was taken in the early 1930s while the couple were working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) The book documents the rural poverty of the depression-era exodus that brought over 300,000 migrants to California in search of farmwork, a westward mass migration driven by economic deprivation as opposed to the Manifest Destiny of 19th century pioneers. This facsimile edition of the original volume reintroduces this sought-after work of art -- a pioneering book that was among the first to combine photographs with oral testimony -- to a contemporary audience, providing an insight into the struggles of the Depression as well as offering a profound and timeless look at the human condition

Dorothea Lange's Ireland by Dorothea Lange( Book )

12 editions published between 1996 and 2002 in English and held by 500 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

""Dorothea Lange's Ireland" showcases some of her finest work--as well as some of her least well-known. Accompanying the photographs are text by Gerry Mullins which describes Lange's motivation to go to Ireland, her travels there, and the subjects of her photographs, and an essay by Lange's son, Daniel Dixon, who traveled with her."--Amazon

Dorothea Lange : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Judith Keller( Book )

8 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 448 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dorothea Lange : the heart and mind of a photographer by Pierre Borhan( Book )

12 editions published in 2002 in English and French and held by 393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Dorothea Lange's images serve as witness to the plight of hundreds of thousands of Americans who migrated westward in search of work, food, and money during the Great Depression. Her iconic photography, including several previously unpublished images from her archive at the Oakland Museum of California, is studied here with a depth and scope unavailable in any other volume." "Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer puts into perspective a life devoted to humanity and sheds new light on a body of work that broadened the horizons of photography even as it served a public purpose. Essays and recollections by Pierre Borhan, A. D. Coleman, Ralph Gibson, and Sam Stourdze accompany the photographs."--BOOK JACKET

Forty acres and steel mules by H. C Nixon( Book )

2 editions published in 1938 in English and held by 336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Celebrating a collection : the work of Dorothea Lange by Therese Thau Heyman( Book )

8 editions published in 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dorothea Lange by Mark Durden( Book )

7 editions published in 2001 in 3 languages and held by 289 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

It was during the depth of the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 30s, when at least 14 million people were out of work in the USA, that Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965) first ventured out on the streets with her camera. In 1935 a report on migrant workers, illustrated with Lange's photographs, came to the attention of Roy Stryker and in response he invited Lange to become a member of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographic unit. Like Stryker, Lange believed that photography was a tool of political action, and this was no more apparent then when the federal government responded to the starvation crisis shortly after the San Francisco News received Lange's photographs - it quickly supplied 20,000 pounds of food to feed hungry migrants at the camps. Lange's championing of black migrants can be seen in the photograph 'Plantation Overseer and his Field Hands' of 1936, in which Lange captured the image of a man who exemplified the racist, exploitative and un-democratic attitudes that were rife in Southern plantation life. The evidence of racism revealed in this photograph - and others - is countered by Lange's many dignifying portraits of black subjects. When the bitter years of the Depression were overtaken by the advent of World War II, she continued to demonstrate her opposition to the poor treatment of migrants by opposing the relocation of 110,000 American Japanese to internment camps. She recorded the evacuation in Northern California after being assigned by the War Relocation Authority. In 1955, after a bout of ill health, Lange continued to work on contemporary social issues, namely a photo-essay for Life magazine, a sensitive study of the work of a Yugoslav-American public defender, representing those who could not afford to pay their own legal expenses. Lange watched and photographed him on and off for a year, catching the reflective moments of his defendants' body language. Lange was the first woman to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1941) and was placed on the Honour Roll of the American Society of Magazine Photographers in 1963. She was honoured with major solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (1960) and the Oakland Art Museum (1960) and she began preparing a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York shortly before she died in 1965

Rural youth on relief by Bruce L Melvin( Book )

1 edition published in 1937 in English and held by 209 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The thunderbird remembered : Maynard Dixon, the man and the artist by Dorothea Lange( Book )

3 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Minimizing racism in jury trials : the voir dire conducted by Charles R. Garry in People of California v. Huey P. Newton( Book )

1 edition published in 1969 in English and held by 179 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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