Dorothea Lange

[CopperB]

Just heard on NPR that Dorothea Lange will be featured tomorrow Wed. April 29/10 on Morning Edition.

 

[JohnTF]

Thanks, will hit the record. American Experience last night featured the shots of the MyLei massacre, which were published years after the event had been covered up. Some interesting shots I had not seen at the time.

Regards, John

 

[vorgonyi]

Sorry for this silly question: but could you explain to an Austrian what NPR is. Can it also be seen/heard on the internet? I am an admirer of Dorothea since I read a book on her.
best
Viktor

 

[CopperB]

Sorry about that. NPR is National Public Radio in the USA. You can listen online at www.npr.org.

 

[vorgonyi]

Great. Thank you.

 

[Bob Michaels]

NPR ran a great story with superb photos a few days ago about Sarah Hoskins and her ten year project to document the lives of families living in the old negro hamlets in Kentucky.

You can read the story and see the photos as well as get a link to listen to the 14 minute interview at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126246445&sc=emaf

Now I admit this is the sort of photography that I love and aspire to do. This is just damn good photography.

No mention of boken, lenses or equipment. (Thank you NPR) But they did compelled to mention it was shot on b&w film. No surprise for a project that began ten years ago.

 

[Bingley]

I'm looking forward to NPR's piece on Dorothea Lange. My guess is that it will feature an interview w/ Linda Gordon (NYU History Prof) who recently published a biography of Lange which is superb so far (I'm reading it now). It's a "life and times" study that critically situates Lange in the history of documentary photography in the thirties, and also critically examines the choices she made as a woman and a photographer. Great read, and one of the best histories of the period I've read in a long time.

 

[emraphoto]

sweet! thanx for the heads up.

 

[peter_n]

Good call Steve! I heard this on the radio on my way in this morning. Very interesting, especially about her self-portrait, and I also didn't know she farmed her kids out to foster parents.

 

[peter_n]

If you're interested in the locations and people of the Great Depression as documented by photographers like Dorothea Lange, Dust Bowl Descent by Bill Ganzel (University of Nebraska Press 1984, ISBN 0 8032 2107 X) is a documentary project that 40 years after the event follows up on the images made famous in many FSA photographs from the 1930s. For seven years Ganzel went on the road, carrying the FSA photographs to find the people and places in them. In his pictures and text Ganzel brings the then and the (1984) now side-by-side in a fascinating book that shows some who have prospered and some who still live very hard lives. Well worth getting.

 

[CopperB]

If you're interested in the locations and people of the Great Depression as documented by photographers like Dorothea Lange, Dust Bowl Descent by Bill Ganzel (University of Nebraska Press 1984, ISBN 0 8032 2107 X) is a documentary project that 40 years after the event follows up on the images made famous in many FSA photographs from the 1930s. For seven years Ganzel went on the road, carrying the FSA photographs to find the people and places in them. In his pictures and text Ganzel brings the then and the (1984) now side-by-side in a fascinating book that shows some who have prospered and some who still live very hard lives. Well worth getting.

That would be a fascinating book to read. Is it still in print do you know?

 

[kxl]

You can also download/purchase copies from the Library of Congress.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/

Regarding rights (from the LOC site):

The Library of Congress generally does not own rights to material in its collections and, therefore, cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. For further rights information, see “Rights Information” below and the Rights and Restrictions Information page ( http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/rights.html ).

Rights assessment is your responsibility.

 

[peter_n]

That would be a fascinating book to read. Is it still in print do you know?

I think it's out of print at the U. of Nebraska but it's available used:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble