Dorothea Lange photos digitized and online

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Enjoy!

https://dorothealange.museumca.org/

 

[CMoore]

Great...My Favorite Museum...closed.
Not that i have been to many, but The Oakland Museum is a cool place just to see.
If it ever opens again, i would love to see this exhibit.
Thanks for the link (big) Cat Dude.

 

[jtk]

I love that museum...was invited to spend a day just exploring the interior architecture before any exhibits... Stayed at the worst ever airbandb just to visit the Oakland....now airbandb cheap rates are a dream from ancient history...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Thank you

 

[DonW]

The UI is a bit clumsy but I sure enjoyed going through her images.

 

[jtk]

" One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable, but when the great photographs are produced, it will be down that road. I have only touched it, just touched it. " — Dorothea Lange

 

[DREW WILEY]

The Oakland Museum considers her the crown jewels of their extensive collection, and they have more of her work than anywhere else. I knew some of her family, and routinely interacted with the museum display crew. I got some traction with the former photography curator, but have never even met the current one. As someone who is personally incapable of pointing a camera at anyone who doesn't invite it, I'm both appalled and amazed by Dorothea's work. Locals dreaded her as a stalker with a camera, but she had a marvelous rapport with the down and out; and more than any other photographer, formed the impression in our minds what the Great Depression looked like. Over the years, the Oakland Museum has put on quite a few great exhibitions, photographic and otherwise, on the level of any other major museum, but without the pretentious snootiness of certain others. Indoor public venues are still not open here, though the Oakland zoo recently reopened. Museum schedules are going to be seriously disrupted because it can take years in advance just to set up a major exhibition. In this case it could hypothetically be done more quickly, because they already have so much of Lange's work on hand.

 

[CMoore]

The Oakland Museum considers her the crown jewels of their extensive collection, and they have more of her work than anywhere else. I knew some of her family, and routinely interacted with the museum display crew. I got some traction with the former photography curator, but have never even met the current one. As someone who is personally incapable of pointing a camera at anyone who doesn't invite it, I'm both appalled and amazed by Dorothea's work. Locals dreaded her as a stalker with a camera, but she had a marvelous rapport with the down and out; and more than any other photographer, formed the impression in our minds what the Great Depression looked like. Over the years, the Oakland Museum has put on quite a few great exhibitions, photographic and otherwise, on the level of any other major museum, but without the pretentious snootiness of certain others. Indoor public venues are still not open here, though the Oakland zoo recently reopened. Museum schedules are going to be seriously disrupted because it can take years in advance just to set up a major exhibition. In this case it could hypothetically be done more quickly, because they already have so much of Lange's work on hand.

Thanks for the info.
I went to that museum, on a "Field Trip" in about 1972 when i was in..... 6th grade i guess.
It fascinated me.
So much of the place is Hidden/Subdued, you hardly know it is there.
When i saw the OP, i called my wife and told her we should be the first ones there on Saturday.
She said fine.....in 2021 you mean.?
I was pissed. I had forgotten all those types of things are locked up right now.

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Great...My Favorite Museum...closed.
Not that i have been to many, but The Oakland Museum is a cool place just to see.
If it ever opens again, i would love to see this exhibit.
Thanks for the link (big) Cat Dude.

Ur welcomed!

 

[John Bragg]

Thanks for sharing. That made my day. Very interesting how Ansel took a portrait of her with a sloppy background with a great big vertical line running through it. Even the greats are human.