Lange, Dorothea

Overview

Works:	567 works in 1,144 publications in 3 languages and 37,220 library holdings
Genres:	Biographies Pictorial works Illustrated works Exhibition catalogs Juvenile works History Nonfiction television programs Documentary television programs Biographical television programs Portraits
Roles:	Photographer, Author, Illustrator, Other, Artist, Honoree, Dedicatee, Interviewee, Collector
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 )

In a rugged land : Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon towns collaboration, 1953-1954 by James R Swensen( )
Dorothea Lange : American photographs by Therese Thau Heyman( Book )
Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth by Barb Rosenstock( Book )
Dorothea Lange, grab a hunk of lightning : her lifetime in photography by Elizabeth Partridge( Book )
Dorothea Lange and the documentary tradition by Karin E Becker( Book )
The photographs of Dorothea Lange by Dorothea Lange( Book )
Women photographers : from Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman by Boris Friedewald( Book )
Learning to see : a novel of Dorothea Lange, the woman who revealed the real America by Elise Hooper( Book )
Perpetual mirage : photographic narratives of the desert West by May Castleberry( Book )
Dorothea Lange by Dorothea Lange( 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 )
Dorothea Lange by Dorothea Lange( Book )
Defining eye : women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales( Book )
Dorothea Lange by Mike Venezia( 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 )

7 editions published between 1998 and 2002 in English and held by 1,764 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 )

8 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 1,440 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 )

7 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 1,158 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 984 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 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 763 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 693 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

2 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 601 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 in the Thirties by Dorothea Lange( Book )

19 editions published between 1939 and 1975 in English and French and held by 600 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First published in 1939, An American Exodus is one of the masterpieces of the documentary photography and oral testimony. Produced by 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 Great Depression exodus that brought over 300,000 migrants to California in search of farmwork

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

28 editions published between 1939 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 593 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The author and photographer document the lives of migrant agricultural workers from 1936 to 1939

Dorothea Lange's Ireland by Dorothea Lange( Book )

12 editions published between 1996 and 2002 in English and held by 489 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 )

9 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 455 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dorothea Lange is chiefly renowned for her social documentary work in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Judith Keller discusses several of her pictures held by the Getty Museum and includes an edited transcript of a colloquium on Lange and a chronicle of her life in this illustrated study

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

"This book is a hillbilly's view of the South. It undertakes to present a picture of certain phases of Southern civilization and to suggest a few points for a program of reconstruction"--P. 3

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 310 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dorothea Lange by Mark Durden( Book )

10 editions published in 2001 in 3 languages and held by 298 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

The plantation South, 1934-1937 by William C Holley( Book )

2 editions published in 1940 in English and held by 242 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rural youth on relief by Bruce L Melvin( Book )

1 edition published in 1937 in English and held by 212 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 192 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 183 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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