She "made more traditional portraits of the same man, but this is the one she chose to print," says Brookman. Children of the Weill Public School, 1942 (Credit: Dorothea Lange) 8. Children of the ...

One reason is because of Dorothea Lange's photographs ... brain," Gordon tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. As a portrait photographer by trade, Lange knew pictures of individuals would have far more ...

photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) had a career that spanned more than four decades. In 1919 at the age of 23 she daringly opened a portrait studio in San Francisco. Meeting her husband ...

The exhibition includes Lange's Farm ... and piercing portraits of people and places in the hope of affecting or influencing social and political reform. The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland ...

NEW YORK — The woman in Dorothea Lange’s most famous ... isn’t accidental. Lange began her career as a portrait photographer, and she had an intuitive sense of what makes a face compelling.

Dorothea Lange, Portrait of a Painter, Charles Duncan, c. 1933. Vintage gelatin silver print, mounted: 7.5 x 6 inches, 19 x 15.24 cm; framed: 19 x 16 inches, 48.3 x 40.64 cm. Signed. Vintage. Dorothea ...

Johnson curated “Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing,” a major ... This crew frequented her studio, where she ran a successful portrait business catering to the city’s wealthy elite.

"These portraits by Dorothea Lange are more than just family keepsakes. Lange captured a sense of optimism and hope along with the essence of the personalities in our family,” said Michael ...

In Dorothea Lange: Seeing People an exhibition at the ... She started out as a portrait photographer. Her studio was "the go-to place for high society" Brookman says. For this portrait of Mrs ...

Dorothea Lange, the photographer best known for her Depression-era field worker portrait, “Migrant Mother,” is the subject of a new documentary that will premiere on PBS August 29. The ...