 |
Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933
|
(This exhibition is showing alongside Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds - see separate entry above)
From the Barbican website:
In 1936, Dorothea Lange made one of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century. Her portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, now known simply as Migrant Mother, portrays a migrant worker who, like countless others, had journeyed west from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression. This image became a symbol of American endurance in the face of unemployment, hunger and homelessness.
While the world has changed dramatically over the last eighty years, much of what concerned Lange is just as relevant today: poverty, displacement, environmental devastation and racial inequality. Lange was perfectly placed to document and observe these changes as they gripped the United States from the 1930s to the Second World War and beyond.
A proto-feminist, visual activist and environmental campaigner, Lange was a powerful woman of unparalleled vigour and resilience. Using her camera as a political tool to shine a light on cruel injustices, Lange went on to become a founding figure of documentary photography.
Reviews
Matthew Collings (Evening Standard)
Laura Cumming (The Guardian)
Sean O'Hagan (The Guardian)
Mark Hudson (The Telegraph)
Emily Spicer (Studio International)
 |
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
|
 |
Dorothea Lange, Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940
|
 |
Dorothea Lange, Family walking on highway - five children.
Started from Idabel, Oklahoma, bound for Krebs, Oklahoma, June 1938
|
 |
Dorothea Lange, Cars on the Road, August 1936
|
 |
Paul S. Taylor, Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Plains, c1935
|
No comments:
Post a Comment