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Dorothea Lange   (1895-1965)

Née en 1895 dans le New Jersey, Dorothea Lange commence sa carrière à New-York. En 1918 elle ouvre un studio de photo à San Francisco où elle s'est installée.
Entre les deux guerres son travail portera essentiellement sur la pauvreté et la détresse qui touche les Etats Unis après la crise de 29. Elle se consacrera en particulier, à la demande de l'administration Roosevelt pour la "Farm Security Administration", à la situation des immigrants en recherche de travail et de logements.
Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale elle travaillera pour une agence gouvernementale sur différents lieux du conflit.

San Francisco - 1934
Nouveau Mexique - 1935
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian - 1936
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Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California - 1936
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Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California - 1936
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Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley - 1936
Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California. Five children, aged two to seventeen years - 1936
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas - 1936
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Child living in Oklahoma City shacktown - 1936
near Washington, Pennsylvania - 1936
Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street - 1936
Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas - 1936
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Negro child. Hill House, Mississippi - 1936
Mississippi Delta Negro children - 1936
Children of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama - 1936
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Alabama tenant farmer and children. Family labor in cotton. Near Anniston, Alabama - 1936
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Harvesting oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis - 1936
Transportation in the South. Mississippi - 1936
Plowboy in Alabama earns seventy-five cents daily - 1936
Cradling wheat near Christianburg, Virginia - 1936
Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. Northern Florida - 1936
Background for Hightstown project photographs. Seventh Avenue and West 28th Street, New York - 1936
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company. Birmingham, Alabama - 1936
Oldest son of a sharecropper family working in the cotton. Chesnee, South Carolina - 1937
Migrant Mexicain - Imperial Valley - California - 1937
Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, California - 1937
North of Dalhart - Texas - 1938
Texas - 1938
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Farmers with mule teams and cultivators. Lake Dick project, Arkansas - 1938
Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open - 1938
Northern Oregon - 1939
Priest River, Penninsula, Bonner - Indiana -1939
Tulelake - 1939
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Contry store - Gordonton - North Carolina -1939
Yakima Valley near Wapato - 1939
Between Weedpatch and Lamont, Kern County, California - 1940
Sud Dakota - 1941
Dorothea Lange - photo de Paul S.Taylor - 1936


La Librairie du Congrès des USA comporte presque 4000 photos de Dorothea Lange. Elles sont libres de droit et peuvent être chargées en différents format, dont le plus grand en "tif".
Lien d'accès aux photos de Dorothea Lange - Library Of Congres