Dorothea Lange

Sunday Bonus Photo: 1939

Dr. X's Free Associations (Free subscription) | yesterday

Gas station on US 99 between Tulare and Fresno (Dorothea Lange).

Migrating people

silent space (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Human migration is movement (physical or psychological) by humans from one district to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. (www.wikipedia.com) Why do people migrate - there are a number of different reasons why people migrate from one place to another. The need to escape from persecution through war and ethnic cleansing, extreme poverty and hunger, slavery and displacement or...

Reading Linda Gordon’s Dorothea Lange “A life beyond limits”

fredzimny ccccc blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

Image by National Media Museum via Flickr Reading Linda Gordon’s Dorothea Lange “A life beyond limits” Related articles by Zemanta Picturing the Depression (nytimes.com) ‘Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits’: a photographer turns suffering into art (seattletimes.nwsource.com) Those great (staged') Great Depression photos (kottke.org) American Pastoral (nybooks.com)

George Tice - Eclectic post-Modern Photographer

The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

George Tice [1938-] occupies a position, historically, that follows closely the Second Generation of photographers in a sequence that begins roughly with the F64 Group (which included Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Alma Levenson, Brett Weston, and a half dozen others), Dorothea Lange and Paul Strand, in the early Thirties, followed by a second wave that included Morley Baer, Brett Weston...

Disadvantage Pornography

The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Presumably, the title of Jonathan Raban's piece about the photographs of Dorothea Lange for the New York Review was entitled "American Pastoral" because, as his point of departure, he invokes William Empson's Some Versions of the Pastoral . As Raban put it, Empson's book "casts a hard modern light on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poems about shepherds and shepherdesses." Under...

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Wordless Wednesday: Dorothea Lange photo "Migrant Mother," California, 1936

The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

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Art review: 'Fazal Sheikh: Beloved Daughters' at the Museum of Photographic Arts

Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Photographer Fazal Sheikh's two most recent projects tell of indignity but show only beauty. It's an unusual combination for a photographer drawn to populations under duress. Throughout the history of the medium, socially concerned photographers have tended instead to advocate...

Baird: Dorothea Lange Restored Dignity to the Poor

MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Dorothea Lange's politics of respect.

J. Paul Getty Museum opens A Photographic History of Working People

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center presents "In Focus: The Worker", a photographic history of working people across a variety of cultures. Drawn exclusively from the Getty’s permanent collection , "In Focus: The Worker" includes photographs from the mid-nineteenth century through the late-twentieth century. The exhibition showcases more than forty...

• Photographic History of Working People on View at the Getty Museum - Artdaily

Jonathan Raban on Dorothea Lange

Slog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

In The New York Review of Books , Raban's got an essay that reviews the life and work of the famous, irascible, and sometimes blindly vain FSA photographer of Migrant Mother through two biographies and his own readings of the pastoral tradition in America. His conclusion hits home: This is painfully evident in Washington state, where I live. Were Lange to return here with her camera seventy years...

i love the NYRB

I Hate The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

If you find yourself with time to read the Nov 19th issue of the New York Review of Books cover to cover, go for it! More 1930s realism; Jonathan Raban on 2 Dorothea Lange bios. Critical in the right ways. And a bit on Irving Penn. Smart enough. The Gaia Hypothesis. Weird, brilliant and very British. The Glorious Revolution. Not so British, after all. American education: history, theory and practice....

A season of books on Dorothea Lange

Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

In this week's New York Review of Books, Jonathan Raban examines two new books about Dorothea Lange: Linda Gordon's Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits is a biography and Anne Whiston Spirn's Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field is an in-depth look at Lange's experiences in 1939. Raban clearly has something he wants to say before he jumps into the books: His essay...

Typewriter Sculptures, Coffee Cup Art & more

Pop Wuping (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

One of Jeremy Mayer's sculptures. Typewriter SculpturesJeremy Mayer disassembles typewriters and then reassembles them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures. He does not...

Headlines: October 30, 2009 [Weekend Edition]

The Morning News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

Weekday articles from The Morning News

Review: Dorothea Lange - A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon

Conscientious (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

I have always been under the impression that America has not given its female photographers the credit they deserve(d), and that it is maybe a bit too generous with its male ones. For example, Ansel Adams might have been very important for those who just love to toil away in the darkroom, but his photography strikes me as tremendously overrated (even though it's just perfect for calendars). I have...