Dorothea Lange: The Internment of Japanese American Citizens
“This is what we did. How did it happen? How could we?” – Dorothea Lange
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AMERICAN MUG SHOTS
CIVIL RIGHTS MUG SHOTS (“WE SHALL OVERCOME”)
The Montgomery County Alabama Sheriff’s Office discovered arrest logs and photographs from the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56) and the Freedom Rides (1961).
The American Psyche on Display: Roger Minick’s ‘Sightseer’
“I came to believe that there was something more meaningful going on––something stronger and more compelling, something that seemed almost woven into the fabric of the American psyche.”
Harry Callahan Loved Eleanor, Barbara and Chicago
“He just liked to take the pictures of me. In every pose. Rain or shine. And whatever I was doing. If I was doing the dishes or if I was half asleep. And he knew that I never, never said no. I was always there for him. Because I knew that Harry would only […]
DORIS ULMANN: “APPALACHIAN PORTRAITS”
Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was born and educated in New York City. A graduate of the school of the Ethical Culture Society, a socially liberal organization that championed individual worth regardless of ethnic background or economic condition. In the late 1920’s Ulmann made trips each summer to document the rural people of the South, particularly […]
Dorothea Lange: “Portraits” (1935 – 1939)
American photographer. From 1914 to 1917 she attended the New York Training School for Teachers and there decided to become a photographer, partly influenced by visits to the photographer Arnold Genthe. From 1917 to 1918 she attended a photography course run by Clarence H. White at Columbia University, NY. Lange moved to San Francisco […]