Dorothea Lange’s photography includes a focus on its relationship to language, with captions or descriptions to “extend, buttress, illuminate, and explain the photograph”.
Join us for a presentation & discussion of this interesting and surprisingly relevant exhibition on Dorothea Lange’s photography with a special focus on its relationship to language – writing found in the environment, but also captions or descriptions added in various publications, to “extend, buttress, illuminate, and explain the photograph”. After an early career as portrait photographer Lange dedicated her life to documenting life during the Great Depression, travelling through the country for the Farm Security Administration to capture the lives of impoverished share croppers, documenting life inside the Japanese Incarceration Camps, in booming coast towns during WWII… She very carefully composed her thought provoking images while always dedicated to being truthful. So many of her images have become iconic, most famously the Migrant Mother.
Presented by Sylvia Laudien-Meo and hosted by Kemmerer Library. This program is made possible by the Friends of Roxbury Public Library. Register online or by phone at (973) 584-2400 and the zoom link will be sent to you the day before the program. If you register within a few hours of the program, please call (973) 584-2400 to request the link.
AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | History | General | Arts & Entertainment |
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