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Dorothea
Lange

Photographer of
the People

SHOW ME AMERICA

Dorothea Lange Photographer of the People David C. King

SERIES CONSULTANT

Jeffrey W. Allison
Paul Mellon Collection
Educator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Cover Art:
Migrant Mother (Dorothea Lange);
San Francisco Social Security Office (Dorothea Lange).

First published 2009 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 2009 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

King, David C.
Dorothea Lang e: photographer of the people / by David C. King.
p. cm. (Show me America)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7656-8154-6 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Lange, DorotheaJuvenile literature. 2. Women photographersUnited States
BiographyJuvenile literature. 3. PhotographersUnited StatesBiography
Juvenile literature. I. Title.

TR140.L3K45 2008
770.92dc22
[B] 2007040696

ISBN 13: 9780765681546 (hbk)

Contents

CHAPTER ONE
A Photographers First Observations

CHAPTER TWO
In Love with San Francisco

CHAPTER THREE
The Great Depression

CHAPTER FOUR
Photographer of the People

CHAPTER FIVE
The Troubled War Yearsand After

CHAPTER SIX
Retrospective

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I've only touched it, just touched it.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

You force yourself onto strange streets, among strangers. It may be very hot. It may be painfully cold. It may be sandy and windy and you say, What am I doing here? What drives me to do this hard thing?

I very early remember that my grandmother told me that of all the things that were beautiful in the world there was nothing finer than an orange, as a thing and I knew what she meant, perfectly.

I have learned from everything, and I'm constantly learning. It's part curiosity, I think, trying to discover why things happen the way they do, watching everything, my own activities included.

Lange holds her camera on her favorite perch for taking pictures.

I invented my own photographic schooling as
I went along, stumbling into most of it.
Dorothea Lange

D orothea Margarette Nutzhorn was born in 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey, to a well-to-do German American family. The first few years of her life were comfortable and happy. Her father, Henry Nutzhorn, was a successful lawyer. They lived in a substantial brownstone house. Hoboken was a small, quiet port town across the Hudson River from New York City.

Two events shattered the normality of her childhood, and both left painful scars that would shape her life. In 1902, when she was seven (a year after her brother, Martin, was born), Dorothea was stricken with polio, also known as infantile paralysis. It was a frightening and painful disease, with no known cause or cure. For days, her young body was wracked with fever and pain.

Dorothea survived the illness, but her right leg was permanently damaged, leaving her with a severe limp that could never be corrected. The limp made her painfully self-conscious, especially when neighborhood children teased her and called her Limpy. Her mother made things worse by loudly telling her to walk straighter when they met people on the street.

I think it perhaps was the most important thing that happened to me, Dorothea later recalled. It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, and humiliated me. All those things at once. Ive never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and the power of it.

Dorothea and her mother rode the ferry every day from the Hoboken Ferry Port across the Hudson River to Manhattan.

Five years later, when Dorothea was twelve, the second devastating event occurred when her father abandoned the family without a word. He left no address or money, and they never heard from him again. The family was left penniless and had to move in with Dorotheas grandmother, Sophie Lange, a skilled dressmaker. In response to the pain of her fathers abandonment, Dorothea dropped his name, Nutzhorn, and took her grandmothers name of Lange.

To support the family, Dorotheas mother, Joan, got a job at the New York Public Library. She enrolled Dorothea in a New York City school, and, each morning, she and her daughter took the ferry from Hoboken to Manhattan.

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