War Information; Shahn, Ben; Steichen, Edward; Stry-
ker, Roy; Weston, Edward; White, Clarence
Biography
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, 26 May 1895. Attended
Training School for Teachers, New York, 1914–1917;
assistant in different photography studios such as Arnold
Genthe, 1912–1917; studied at Clarence White School,
Columbia University, New York, 1917. Opened portrait
studio, San Francisco, 1919; portrait photographer, San
Francisco, 1919–1934; 1934–1935; became associated
with economist Paul Schuster Taylor working on plight
of migrant agricultural workers; married 1935. Farm
Security Administration photographer (known as Reset-
tlement Administration until 1937) under Roy Stryker,
San Francisco, 1935–1939; publication ofAmerican Exo-
duswith Paul Taylor, 1939; photographer for United
States Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1940; photo-
grapher for U.S. War Relocation Agency, San Francisco,
1942; Office of War Information, 1943–1945; freelance
photography forLifeand other magazines, 1953–1957;
instructor of photography at California School of Fine
Arts, 1957–1958; freelance photographer, Asia, South
America, Middle East, 1958–1962. Guggenheim Founda-
tion Grant, 1941. Died in Marin County, California, 11
October 1965.Individual Exhibitions
1934 Brockhurst Photography Gallery; Oakland, California
1960 Death of a Valley; San Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco, California and traveling
1961 Bibliotheca Communale; Milan, Italy
1966 Dorothea Lange Retrospective; Museum of Modern
Art, New York, New York and traveling
1967 DorotheaLange;AmonCarterMuseum,FortWorth,Texas
1971 Oakland Art Museum; Oakland, California
1973 Victoria and Albert Museum; London, England
1978 Oakland Art Museum; Oakland, California
1998 Dorothea Lange; Patrimoine Photographique, Hoˆ tel
de Sully, Paris, France
2002 About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange;J.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CaliforniaDorothea Lange, Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, 1938, Gelatin-silver print,
1413 = 16 203 = 400.
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