c-span: long interview with Dorothea Lange historian

[jtk]

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]

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]

Thank you!

 

[Old_Dick]

Big thanks. One of my favorite.

 

[jtk]

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.