1. The camera is an instrument that teaches
people how to see without a camera. -
Dorothea Lange - quoted in: Los Angeles
Times (13 Aug. 1978).

2. Bio
 Dorothea Lange
was a influential
American
documentary
photographer.
 She was born in
Hoboken.
 In high school,
Lange decided to
study photography.

3. Bio continued
 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.

4. ―[It] was the most important
thing that happened to me,
and formed me, guided me,
instructed me, helped me
and humiliated me,‖ –
Lange

5.  Lange’s Life Span:
May 26, 1895-
White Angel Bread October 11, 1965.
Line, San Francisco
 Paul Strand was
one of the artist
that influenced her.
 Lange influenced
the photographer
Ansel Adams and
Roy Stryker.

6. 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

7.  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]

8. ―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."

9. 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.

10. "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

11. The Arnold children,
Michigan Hill,
Washington, 1939

12. ―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.‖

13. "Young Girl" 1962

14. "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

15. Pledge of allegiance
at Rafael Weill
Elementary School

16. "I had to get my camera to register
things that were more important
than how poor they were--their
pride, their strength, their spirit."
Lighthearted Kids in
Merrill FSA Camp -
1939

17. Louisiana Negress,
1937

18. Polk County, Oregon
1939

19. ―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

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

21. ―Photography takes an
instant out of time, altering
life by holding it still.‖

22. Works Cited
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 "World's famous photos."
worldsfamousphotos.com. life.com. Web. 14
Mar 2013
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23. Works citied continued
 "Dorothea Lange." theartstory.org. N.p.. Web. 15
Mar 2013.
 "Hoe Culture:1936." shorpy.com. N.p.. Web. 15
Mar 2013.
 "Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of
Desolation." npr.org. NPR Staff. Web. 15 Mar
2013.
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Web. 15 Mar 2013.
 "Dorothea Lange Quotes -GI Artists Info."
sites.google.com. N.p.. Web. 17 Mar 2013.

24. 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