"These days, everyone has a camera. What are we really seeing? As we enhance and alter photographs with elaborate techniques, I often wonder what Dorothea would say. Her images revealed her subjects with straightforward exactness. Her sense of the beauty in the unaltered truth of life has stayed with me. “See what is really there.” Dorothea said. “Look at it. Look at it.”
(from Dyanna Taylor, director of Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, and granddaughter of Dorothea Lange)
(from Dyanna Taylor, director of Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, and granddaughter of Dorothea Lange)
Notes for presentation:
- Informally trained in photography
- apprenticed in NYC
- Settled in San Francisco, portrait studio
- Depression. Employed by the Farm Security Administration
- Along with husband, Paul Taylor, they documented migrant laborers and sharecroppers' exploitation
- Japanese internments
- 1955 family of man exhibit mom