logging in or signing up Dorothea Lange [Autosaved] indianasummer Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 63 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: November 25, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Dorothea Lange: D orothea L ange PhotographerDorothea Lange: D orothea L ange “humanitarian with a camera”: Dorothea Lange is widely recognized as one 0f the most eloquent and original photographers in the medium’s history. Clues to the nature and meaning 0f her work are contained in her life story: * Born in 1895 in Hoboken, New jersey, Dorothea Nutzhorn’s childhood was marked with unhappiness and a sense of alienation .: * 1902—Dorothea contracted Polio, leaving her with a life-long limp. * 1907– Her dad abandoned the family. Dorothea, her mom and brother moved in with her grandma. Dorothea changed her name to Lange.: * 1907—Dorothea felt alone and kept to herself. She skipped school often to walk in the park, visit museums and go to free concerts. Observing life while being unnoticed, was a practice that she later felt prepared her to be a documentary photographer.: 1933 - White Angel Breadline This is the 1 st of many documentary shots. ----------: * 1913—Dorothea graduated from high school and although had never used a camera she was determined to be a photographer. To humor her family she went to college for teaching but worked on the side with studio portraitists in NY.: * 1918– She left N.Y. with a friend to travel the world but their money got stolen in San Francisco. She worked as a photo finisher and later opened her own portrait studio, with immediate commercial success. Her clients were those of prominent families.: * 1919 to 1929– Dorothea married a noted artist and illustrator and they traveled extensively. She photographed while he sketched. They had 2 sons, Daniel and John Dixon. Just after the stock market crash they returned to San Francisco.: * 1930—Depression hit America. Lange and Dixon moved into their separate studios to save money and sent their boys to boarding school.: * 1933– Although she continued her portrait work, she turned her camera to the unemployed that gathered in the relief lines near her studio. Casually at 1 st …and then obsessively.: * 1934– Paul Taylor , Professor of Ag. Econ. at Berkeley University saw Lange’s work and contacted her to obtain prints for his article on the General Strike. A friendship between them formed and in 1935 they divorced their former spouses and married.: Dixon Taylor XXX: * Taylor became director of California Rural Rehab. Admin. And enlists Dorothea to photograph the 1 st migrant workers. She is most known from this work.: * 1936—The picture entitled “Migrant Mother”, received great attention. It was this one picture that would make Dorothea well known as a photographer and double as the tool used to educate the government on the migrant camp conditions.: * 1939—Lange and Taylor published “ An American Exodus”. This book later proved to be very influential in the field of documentary photography.: * Intermittently, Dorothea worked for the government until 1942, photographing dust bowl victims and the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. * Between 1945-1950 her work was interrupted by severe and recurrent illness. And in 1951 began shooting again.: * 1952-1964 Dorothea’s work was in several exhibits and she worked with several people including Ansel Adams. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and continued her travels, all the while shooting.: *1965—In San Francisco on October 11 th , Dorothea Lange died of Cancer. Dorothea was 70.: Thank you, Dorothea for teaching through the lens of your camera.: Powerpoint by: Shelly Frische Sources: “Dorothea Lange” by Mark Durden “America Through the Lens” by: Martin W. Sandler “The Heart and Mind of a Photographer” by: Pierre Borhan “The Photographs of Dorothea Lange” By:Keith F. Davis You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Dorothea Lange [Autosaved] indianasummer Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 63 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: November 25, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Dorothea Lange: D orothea L ange PhotographerDorothea Lange: D orothea L ange “humanitarian with a camera”: Dorothea Lange is widely recognized as one 0f the most eloquent and original photographers in the medium’s history. Clues to the nature and meaning 0f her work are contained in her life story: * Born in 1895 in Hoboken, New jersey, Dorothea Nutzhorn’s childhood was marked with unhappiness and a sense of alienation .: * 1902—Dorothea contracted Polio, leaving her with a life-long limp. * 1907– Her dad abandoned the family. Dorothea, her mom and brother moved in with her grandma. Dorothea changed her name to Lange.: * 1907—Dorothea felt alone and kept to herself. She skipped school often to walk in the park, visit museums and go to free concerts. Observing life while being unnoticed, was a practice that she later felt prepared her to be a documentary photographer.: 1933 - White Angel Breadline This is the 1 st of many documentary shots. ----------: * 1913—Dorothea graduated from high school and although had never used a camera she was determined to be a photographer. To humor her family she went to college for teaching but worked on the side with studio portraitists in NY.: * 1918– She left N.Y. with a friend to travel the world but their money got stolen in San Francisco. She worked as a photo finisher and later opened her own portrait studio, with immediate commercial success. Her clients were those of prominent families.: * 1919 to 1929– Dorothea married a noted artist and illustrator and they traveled extensively. She photographed while he sketched. They had 2 sons, Daniel and John Dixon. Just after the stock market crash they returned to San Francisco.: * 1930—Depression hit America. Lange and Dixon moved into their separate studios to save money and sent their boys to boarding school.: * 1933– Although she continued her portrait work, she turned her camera to the unemployed that gathered in the relief lines near her studio. Casually at 1 st …and then obsessively.: * 1934– Paul Taylor , Professor of Ag. Econ. at Berkeley University saw Lange’s work and contacted her to obtain prints for his article on the General Strike. A friendship between them formed and in 1935 they divorced their former spouses and married.: Dixon Taylor XXX: * Taylor became director of California Rural Rehab. Admin. And enlists Dorothea to photograph the 1 st migrant workers. She is most known from this work.: * 1936—The picture entitled “Migrant Mother”, received great attention. It was this one picture that would make Dorothea well known as a photographer and double as the tool used to educate the government on the migrant camp conditions.: * 1939—Lange and Taylor published “ An American Exodus”. This book later proved to be very influential in the field of documentary photography.: * Intermittently, Dorothea worked for the government until 1942, photographing dust bowl victims and the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. * Between 1945-1950 her work was interrupted by severe and recurrent illness. And in 1951 began shooting again.: * 1952-1964 Dorothea’s work was in several exhibits and she worked with several people including Ansel Adams. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and continued her travels, all the while shooting.: *1965—In San Francisco on October 11 th , Dorothea Lange died of Cancer. Dorothea was 70.: Thank you, Dorothea for teaching through the lens of your camera.: Powerpoint by: Shelly Frische Sources: “Dorothea Lange” by Mark Durden “America Through the Lens” by: Martin W. Sandler “The Heart and Mind of a Photographer” by: Pierre Borhan “The Photographs of Dorothea Lange” By:Keith F. Davis