Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life, film presented by Photography At Oregon

June 24
Doors open at 6:30pm;  Movie starts at 7:00pm;
One night showing

NewZone Gallery
110 E 11th Ave
Eugene, Oregon 97401
541-686-1240
www.photographyatoregon.org

free to the public, donations accepted

Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life brings to life five decades of the changing face of 20th century America, viewed through the lens of one of its most eloquent photographers. The film sets Lange’s evocative photographs and recorded conversations against contemporary interviews with family and colleagues, creating an intimate portrait of this extraordinary and complex photographer. (46 minutes)

Her Contribution to the democratic ideal:
I have come to think of Lange as a photographer of democracy, and for democracy. Her career developed when the severe economic depression of the 1930s created a political opening for expanding and deepening American democracy. Despite the miseries and fear it engendered, the Depression created a moment of idealism, imagination, and unity in Americans’ hopes for their country. No photographer of the time, perhaps no artist of the time, did more than Lange to advance this democratic vision. Her photographs enlarged the popular understanding of who Americans were, providing a more democratic visual representation of the nation. Lange’s America included Mormons, Jews, and evangelicals; farmers, sharecroppers, and migrant farmworkers; workers domestic and industrial, male and female; citizens and immigrants not only black and white but also Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, and Japanese, notably the 120,000 Japanese Americans locked in internment camps during World War II. Late in life her democratic eye reached beyond the United States, as she photographed in Egypt, Japan, Indonesia, and many other parts of the developing world. There too her focus was democratic: she photographed primarily working people through her lens of respect for their labor, skills, and pride.

Taken from Lori Oden writing for IPHF (International Photography Hall of Fame)

Dorothea Lange

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