United States · 1895–1965
Dorothea Lange
Documentary photographer whose Depression-era images defined how America pictures hardship.
- Intimate
- Radical
- Labor & Domesticity
Fun fact
Childhood polio left her with a limp she credited for her work: 'It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me.'
How she made it
Documentary silver gelatin photography with a Graflex held at waist level so she could talk while shooting. She worked close, made notes on every subject, and printed for a full tonal range rather than dramatic contrast.
- Work
- Abandoned Farm in the Dustbowl, Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas, June, 1938, printed ca. 1972
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Collection
- Photographs, The Met