Dorothea Lange — International Center of Photography
Citation
International Center of Photography. “Dorothea Lange.” Constituent page in the ICP archive-browse index. Accessed 2026-05-07. https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/dorothea-lange
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Tier-1 institutional archive page for Dorothea Lange at ICP. Reference for her biographical anchor (born Hoboken, New Jersey, 1895; died 1965; FSA work 1935–1939; first Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to a woman, 1941). Lange has nine plates in The Family of Man per strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv (2026-05-07): photo-0045 (Section 7 Births), photo-0087 (Children B), photo-0093 (Children B, FSA), photo-0127 (Land), photo-0175 (Work B), photo-0286 (Relationships, FORTUNE), photo-0291 (Relationships, FORTUNE), photo-0376 (Hard Times, FSA), photo-0379 (Hard Times, FSA). All nine plates are credited “American” in the MoMA Master Checklist; three carry an explicit Farm Security Administration commissioner credit.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim quotations from the page fetched 2026-05-07:
- “Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Dorothea Lange was training as a teacher when she decided to become a professional photographer in 1913.”
- “She worked at the studio of the Pictorialist photographer Arnold Genthe in 1914 and studied at the Clarence H. White School in 1917.”
- “Upon completing the White course, she moved to San Francisco, where she opened a portrait studio which she operated from 1919 to 1940.”
- “In 1929 she began to photograph people in the context of their daily lives.”
- “they married in 1935 and collaborated on the book An American Exodus in 1939.” (the antecedent is Paul Taylor.)
- “Between 1935 and 1939, Lange traveled extensively for the Farm Security Administration, for which she made many of her best-known photographs, including Migrant Mother.”
- “Lange received the first Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to a woman in 1941.”
- “from 1942 to 1945 she worked for the U.S. government photographing such subjects such as the Japanese-American internment camps.”
- “Diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1965, she devoted herself to preparing for a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, held posthumously in 1966.”
- “Dorothea Lange is one of the nation’s greatest documentary photographers.”
Notes
- Perspective: institutional / archival.
- The ICP page gives year-only resolution (1895 / 1965). The May 26, 1895 / October 11, 1965 day-month tokens and the San Francisco place-of-death token carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-lange-pointer.
- The page does not name The Family of Man explicitly; the connection is made via the MoMA Master Checklist (src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist, in repo) at the plate level.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-07.