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Dorothea Lange Biography
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1914 - 1917 |
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Attended the New York Training School for Teachers
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1919 |
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Moved to San Francisco and established her own studio
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1920 - 1930 |
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Worked as a portrait photographer, usually for San Francisco's upper class
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1932 |
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Began shooting San Francisco's urban unemployed and labor unrest
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1935 |
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Became a staff photographer at the Federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later renamed the Farm Security Administration (FSA)
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1940 |
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Was hired by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics as the photographer for a series of community studies in California and Arizona
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1940 - 1945 |
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During WWII, photographed the internment of Japanese Americans for the War Relocation Authority, and the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, California, for the Office of War Information
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1952 |
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Co-founded the photographic magazine Aperture
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1965 |
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Died in San Francisco, CA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2002 - 2003
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About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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1966
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Dorothea Lange, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1962
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The Bitter Years, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1955
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Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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