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Dorothea Lange : politics of seeing
\"Dorothea Lange's photograph, Migrant Mother, is one of the most indelible and recognizable images of the Dust Bowl era. Lange's career stretched far beyond the Great Depression, driven throughout by her compassionate advocacy for the people and land of California. This riveting book opens with Lange's Bay Area portraits of the 1920s and '30s when her photo studio formed a hub for San Francisco's bohemian and artistic elite. It offers a generous overview of her work with the Farm Security Administration, where Lange was the only female photographer documenting the impact of the Depression and Dust Bowl on the west coast, working alongside the likes of Walker Evans, as well as her pictures of Japanese Americans forcibly displaced into internment camps following Pearl Harbor. It also includes images from her wartime shipyards series with Ansel Adams, postwar projects on the injustices of the American court system, loss of a community through the damming of the Putah Creek, and a photo series on Ireland. Accompanying these superbly reproduced images are thoughtful essays by curator Drew Johnson, critic Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and writer and curator David Campany, which offer appreciations of Lange's work as an artist and humanitarian, charting the legacy of her exceptional photographic oeuvre.\"--Publisher's website.
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Dorothea Lange's lens on humanity
The Great Depression of 1930s America and the Dust Bowl that devastated farming in the high plains of Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Texas are summoned up in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie's gravelly voice singing Dust Bowl Blues. Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California During the Depression Lange took photographs for the Farm Security Administration, one of the agencies established under Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal. Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, until Sept 2, 2018 http://blog.barbican.org.uk/2018/06/about-dorothea-lange-politics-of-seeing/ Paul S Taylor, Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Plains, ca. 1935 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California
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Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing
Constantine reviews Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, an exhibition at Jeu de Paume in Paris from Oct 16, 2018 to Jan 27, 2019.
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A Dog with a Bone: A Critique of Paul Taylor's Small-Farm Essentialism
Paul Taylor, an agricultural labor economist at Berkeley, worked, often with his wife, the photographer Dorothea Lange, to document the conditions faced by migrant workers during the Depression. In the 1940s, however, he turned to a focus on the Reclamation Act of 1902's restrictions on federally subsidized water to owner-occupied farms of one hundred sixty acres or less. He campaigned for the enforcement of these provisions for four decades, until they were eliminated by the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982. This article explores the sources of Taylor's attachment to small-farm ideology in his nostalgia for the stability and homogeneity of his childhood in Sioux City, Iowa, and his shock at the immiseration in the fields of California. It argues that his “small-farm essentialism” blinded him to the potential of farmworkers' organizing efforts to address exploitation more effectively than “a law on the books” from a receding semi-agrarian past.
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Apology and Commemoration: Memorializing the World War II Japanese American Incarceration at the Tanforan Assembly Center
A series of on-site historic plaques and a photographic exhibition at a nearby train station serve as background to study the development of a new memorial to remember the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California. The design and iconography of the future Tanforan memorial are analyzed alongside the motivations of the main actors that have shaped it: a group of memory activists, a transit agency and a shopping mall developer. The article concludes that these past and future commemorative interventions reveal the relationship between an unsettled memorial landscape and the Japanese American community's ongoing demands for apology.
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PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE WORLD WE LIVE
Photography today has become commonplace, and the medium continues to evolve and reinvent itself, as people, the artist-photographer, must too. Here, Livingston talks about photography.
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