Resources

How to Find Lange Photographs

The images in this exhibit are all taken from the U.S. National Archives. To locate an image:

 

Publications

John Armor and Peter Wright, Manzanar (NY: Times Books, 1988), with an essay by John Hersey and pictures by Ansel Adams.

Richard Bolton, ed., The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989).

Elena Tajima Creef, Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body (NY: NYU Press, 2004).

Pete Daniel, Merry A. Foresta, Maren Stange and Sally Stein, Official Images: New Deal Photography (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1987).

Judith Fryer Davidov, "`The Color of My Skin, the Shape of My Eyes’: Photographs of the Japanese American Internment by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Miyatake," Yale Journal of Criticism 9 #2, 1996, 223-44.

Jonathan Harris, Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Therese Thau Heyman, ed., Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (SFMOMA, 1994).

Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life (NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978).

Karin Becker Ohrn, Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980).

Miné Okubo, Citizen 13660 (NY: Columbia University Press, 1946). 

Elizabeth Partridge, ed., Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Washington: Smithsonian, 1994).

Allan Sekula, “Photography Between Labour and Capital,” pp. 193-269 in Leslie Shedden, Mining Photographs and Other Pictures.  A Selection from the Negative Archives of Shedden Studio, Glace Bay, Cape Breton (Cape Breton: Press of the Novia Scotia College of Art and Design, 1983). 

Sally Stein, “Peculiar Grace: Dorothea Lange and the Testimony of the Body,” in Elizabeth Partridge, ed., Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Washington: Smithsonian Press, 1994). 

Sally Stein, “Portraiture’s Veil,” in Dorothea Lange: The Human Face (Paris: NBC éditions, 1998). 

Richard Steven Street, “Paul S. Taylor and the Origins of Documentary Photography in California, 1927-1934,” History of Photography 7 #4, 1983, pp. 293-304.

John Tagg, The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories (Amherst: Univ of Mass, 1988).

 

Websites

Library of Congress, America's Story, "Meet Amazing Americans: Dorothea Lange"
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/lange


Library of Congress, "Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother Photographs"
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html


Library of Congress, "Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters during World War II."
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html


Oakland Museum of California, Dorothea Lange collections
http://www.museumca.org/global/art/collections_dorothea_lange.html

Susan Oliver, "Dorothea Lange, Photographer of the People"
http://www.dorothea-lange.org/

The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, "Dorothea Lange and the Relocation of the Japanese"
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/lange.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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