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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange

PHOTOGRAPHER May 26, 1895 - Oct 11, 1965

KNOWN FOR

"Migrant Mother" (1936) portrait and photographs of the Dust Bowl and migrants

AMERICAN MASTERS FILM

Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning (Aug 2014)Directed by Dyanna Taylor

Written Features

Watch “Dorothea Lange — Under The Trees,” an intimate documentary of the American photographer from 1965

Video Features

Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
USA: Photography – Dorothea Lange: Under the Trees
Classroom Resources: Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning -- Lange's Photos of the Internment of Japanese-Americans
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Clip | Lange's Photos of the Internment of Japanese-Americans
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning -- Web Exclusive: Japanese-American Internees Today
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Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Clip | Web Exclusive: Japanese-American Internees Today
Dorothea Lange
USA: Photography – Dorothea Lange: Under the Trees
Quotes by Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange Book Cover
USA: Photography – Dorothea Lange: Under the Trees
Book Excerpts from Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
USA: Photography – Dorothea Lange: Under the Trees
Director Dyanna Taylor on Making the Film
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning -- The Dust Bowl: Documenting the First Migrants to California
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Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Clip | The Dust Bowl: Documenting the First Migrants to California
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning -- Dorothea Lange's Portrait Studio in San Francisco
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Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Clip | Dorothea Lange's Portrait Studio in San Francisco
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning -- Lange's Eye on The Great Depression and Sharecropping
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Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Clip | Lange's Eye on The Great Depression and Sharecropping
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning -- Dorothea Lange's Museum of Modern Art Retrospective
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Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Clip | Dorothea Lange's Museum of Modern Art Retrospective
Dorothea Lange with Graflex, 1937.
USA: Photography – Dorothea Lange: Under the Trees
Dorothea Lange Biography with Photo Gallery
-- Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936
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Clip | Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning -- Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning - Preview
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Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning - Preview

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