Dorothea Lange: The Closer for Me

Provides an opportunity for the viewer to compare the personality of Dorothea Lange, photographer-artist, with her work. Many of her photographs are presented; these cover various periods, such as the depression, World War II, and the growth of the urban sprawl in contemporary California. Lange is shown in her home as she states she is convinced the world is not being truly photographed at all today. To the present generation of photographers, she proposes a new photographic project with the cities of America as the subject--to be done on a scale comparable to that of the Farm Security Administration Photographic Project of the thirties., Compares the personality of the photographer Dorothea Lange with her work. Presents many of her works from the Depression, World war II, and the urban growth in California, and offers her proposals for a new photographic project with the cities of America--done on a scale comparable to that of the Farm Security Adminstration Photographic Project of the thirties. Describes Miss Lange's own difficulties as she sees them in achieving this type of photograph in what she calls "what is really there--the underpinnings-the human condition.", NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.