Dorothea Lange 
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SOURCE: The Nation
11/17/2020
Whitewashing the Great Depression (Review)
Three new books describe the role of administrator Roy Stryker of the Farm Security Administration in filtering the photographic work of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Russell Lee to emphasize the depression's burden on rural whites.
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SOURCE: The Paris Review
3/31/2020
Dorothea Lange’s Angel of History
by Rebecca Solnit
As is so often the case with Dorothea Lange’s photographs and maybe with nearly all photographs, the meaning of the image comes in part from beyond the frame.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/29/2020
Following Dorothea Lange's Notebooks
by Tess Taylor
As I visited encampments, internment centers and small agricultural towns, I used Ms. Lange’s images and words as a lens to help refract the messy complexity of California’s present.
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