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"tombstone": "Resident, Conway, Arkansas, 1938, printed c. 1940. Dorothea Lange (American, 1895\u20131965). Gelatin silver print; image: 24.5 x 19.5 cm (9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1989.62. \u00a9 The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor",
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"inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"38136\"; \"97\"",
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"id": 310333,
"title": "The Year in Review for 1989",
"description": "The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).",
"opening_date": "1990-02-06T05:00:00"
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"id": 213387,
"title": "A Dialog Between Photographs",
"description": "A Dialog Between Photographs. August Sander Archiv, K\u00f6ln, Germany (May 23-August 10, 1997).",
"opening_date": "1997-05-23T00:00:00"
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"id": 194095,
"title": "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).",
"opening_date": "2007-06-24T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 299125,
"title": "From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression",
"description": "From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2017-08-13T04:00:00"
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"description": "Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (May 19-September 5, 1994); Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (September 23-November 20, 1994); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (December 12, 1994-February 19, 1995); International Center for Photography, New York, NY (March 3-April 19, 1995).",
"opening_date": "1994-05-19T00:00:00"
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"description": "Lisa Dixon-Perrin (the artist's granddaughter)",
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"description": "A great deal is known about 27-year-old Allie Mae Burroughs, whose portrait is one of the most iconic images of the Depression. Featured in James Agee and Walker Evans\u2019s book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (on view in this exhibition) under the pseudonym Mrs. Gudger, she was a poor sharecropper\u2019s wife and mother of four. The only thing known about Lange\u2019s subject is the name of her town. These two women in their twenties, faces lined with care, were photographed mug-shot style, head-on against weathered wood walls. Despite facing great adversity, both demonstrate determination and fortitude, and perhaps a hint of defiance at being offered up as specimens of rural and small town suffering during the Depression.",
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"citation": "Heyman, Therese Thau, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. 1994.",
"page_number": "p. 190, no. 70, repr. plate 70",
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"citation": "E. H. T. \"The Year in Review: Selections 1989.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 2 (1990): 38-78.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p.68",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25160106"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 219",
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"citation": "Lange, Susanne , and Anne Gantefu\u0308hrer. Photographien im Dialog = A dialog between photographs: eine Sonderschau der Photographischen Sammlung. Ko\u0308ln, Deutschland: SK Stiftung Kultur, 1997.",
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"biography": "Dorothea Lange American, 1895-1965\r\n\r\nDorothea Lange was a well-known documentary photographer who created memorable images of depression-era America. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange gained her first photographic experience working for Arnold Genthe in New York City. She then studied with Clarence H. White at his School of Photography and in 1919 opened a portrait studio in San Francisco. The following year she married painter Maynard Dixon and continued to work as a studio photographer until the early 1930s, when she began photographing unemployed laborers and labor strikes.\r\n\tPaul Taylor, a University of California economics professor who later became Lange's second husband, was impressed by her documentary work and in 1934 hired her to photograph migrant agricultural workers for the California State Emergency Relief Administration. Lange's work for Taylor led to a job with Roy Stryker at the U.S. Resettlement Administration (later called the Farm Security Administration) in 1935, photographing unemployed and homeless migrant workers, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In 1942, the year after she received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Lange began photographing Japanese-American internment camps in the United States.\r\n\tLater Lange worked for the Office of War Information and as a freelance photographer for Life magazine and other publications. She also traveled with Taylor to Asia, Latin America, and the Near East. In 1966, the year after her death, a major retrospective of Lange's work was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. M.M.",
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