c-span: long interview with Dorothea Lange historian

jtk · Feb 28, 2020

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...=d6d6236ce6508eb0b287d8c2d544dadb&action=view

I'd forgotten that Lange suffered from polio and died of it when it returned.

I'd forgotten that she'd been a successful San Francisco portrait photographer.

This interview addresses her politics and doesn't dwell on FSA gossip.

Guardian article that brings up Lange's disability in relation to dance (Isadora Duncan):
https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...thea-lange-photography-day-sleeper-sam-contis

awty · Feb 28, 2020

A reordered interview with the woman herself.
https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/narrators/lange_dorothea.html
A transcript from another interview, cant find the actual recording.
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-dorothea-lange-11757

James Bleifus · Feb 28, 2020

Thank you!

Old_Dick · Feb 29, 2020

Big thanks. One of my favorite.

jtk · Mar 11, 2020

A dear friend, senior fellow photographer, visited her, probably drank a little wine, and was sad about the work he did (mass photos of students). She asked to see the contact prints in his camera box (was an EK view camera). She told him he'd been doing the most important photography possible, which more than consoled him.

c-span: long interview with Dorothea Lange historian

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