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A professor of humanities and history at New York University, she has written at length on Dorothea Lange. Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. Known for her powerful images from the Great Depression, including the haunting. Linda Gordon contributes a new biographical essay and an image-by-image commentary to accompany a newly selected set of photographs. American Masters: Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning DVD. She possessed the ability, as she put it, to photograph "things as they are" and through this her photographs give us "more about the subjects than just the faces." It is no wonder that Edward Steichen called her the greatest documentary photographer in the United States.
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This book presents 42 of the greatest images from throughout Lange's career, including some of her work done abroad. She later photographed Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II and traveled throughout Europe and Asia. Air Date: Sunday, August 31, at 4pmExplore the life, passions and uncompromising vision of the photographer whose enduring images documented the Great Depres. Her powerful images from migrant workers in California fleeing the "dustbowl," to struggling Southern sharecroppers became icons of the era.
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American Masters: Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning premieres Friday, August 29 at 9-11 pm on PBS. He became a character in John Steinbecks novel The Grapes of Wrath. Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) documented rural poverty for the federal Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1939. In 1965 Lange and the MoMA curator of photography prepared for her one-woman exhibition. Lange tells the story of Tom Collins, the manager of 'Migratory Labor Camp,' whom she met.