BY: BRIANNA SANTANA

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a

camera. - Dorothea Lange - quoted in: Los Angeles Times (13 Aug. 1978).

Bio

Dorothea Lange was a influential

American documentary photographer.

She was born in Hoboken.

In high school, Lange decided

to study photography.

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She studied the art form at Columbia University.

After that she was an apprentice for the next several years. each year with a different photographer.

“[It] was the most important thing that happened to me, and formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me,” – Lange

White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco

Lange’s Life Span: May 26, 1895-October 11, 1965.

Paul Strand was one of the artist that influenced her.

Lange influenced the photographer Ansel Adams and Roy Stryker.

To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. But when the great photographs are produced, it will be down that road. But I have only touched it, just touched it. - Lange

Lange’s contribution to art was during the great depression and the post war.

Her most known picture is the “migrant mother”

Migrant Mother [1936]

“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”

"Hoe culture in the South. Poor white, North Carolina."

Why is she important to photography?

Lange could capture the moment

whenever she took a picture. A lot of

pictures to me were very good and was like a time capsule

of the Great Depression. It is

like a story with out any words.

"And that's really part of what Lange's genius was about: That she could make pictures of very poor people — people very, very hard hit — and still make them extremely attractive individuals.“

-Linda Gordon

The Arnold children, Michigan Hill, Washington, 1939

“Every image he sees, every photograph he takes, becomes in a sense a self-portrait. The portrait is made more meaningful by intimacy - an intimacy shared not only by the photographer with his subject but by the audience.”

"Young Girl" 1962

"Dorothea Lange is one of the most important American photographers of our time and one of the most significant women in the history of the field," -Deborah Gribbon

Pledge of allegiance at Rafael Weill Elementary School

Lighthearted Kids in Merrill FSA Camp - 1939

"I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit."

Louisiana Negress, 1937

Polk County, Oregon 1939

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see” –Lange

"Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California." (1936)

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.- Lange