PHOTOGRAPHY MONOGRAPHS

Dorothea Lange

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


     

ACTIVE BACKLIST

Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister. Text by Julie Ault, Kimberly Juanita Brown, River Encalada Bullock, Sam Contis, Jennifer Greenhill, Lauren Kroiz, Sally Mann, Sandra Phillips, Wendy Red Star, Christina Sharpe, Robert Slifkin, Rebecca Solnit, Tess Taylor.

On the unique synthesis of word and image in Dorothea Lange's boldly political photography, which defined the iconography of WPA and Depression-era America

Clth, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 70 color / 75 duotone. | 2/25/2020 | In stock
$55.00


Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
By Tess Taylor.

Acclaimed American poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange’s photography with a new work

Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 64 pgs / 10 bw. | 2/25/2020 | In stock
$12.95


Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Text by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

Lange’s iconic portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, revisited

Pbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color. | 3/19/2019 | Out of stock
$14.95


Dorothea Lange: Words & PicturesDorothea Lange: Words & Pictures

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister. Text by Julie Ault, Kimberly Juanita Brown, River Encalada Bullock, Sam Contis, Jennifer Greenhill, Lauren Kroiz, Sally Mann, Sandra Phillips, Wendy Red Star, Christina Sharpe, Robert Slifkin, Rebecca Solnit, Tess Taylor.

Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange reflected, “All photographs—not only those that are so-called ‘documentary’... can be fortified by words.” Though Lange's career is widely heralded, this connection between words and pictures has received scant attention. A committed social observer, Lange paid sharp attention to the human condition, conveying stories of everyday life through her photographs and the voices they drew in. Published in conjunction with the first major MoMA exhibition of Lange’s in 50 years, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures brings fresh attention to iconic works from the collection together with lesser-known photographs—from early street photography to projects on the criminal justice system. The work’s complex relationships to words show Lange’s interest in art’s power to deliver public awareness and to connect to intimate narratives in the world.

Presenting Lange’s work in its diverse contexts—photobooks, Depression-era government reports, newspapers, magazines, poems—along with the voices of contemporary artists, writers and thinkers, the book offers a nuanced understanding of Lange’s career, and new means for considering words and pictures today. An introductory essay by curator Sarah Hermanson Meister is followed by sections organized according to “words” from a range of historical contexts: Lange’s landmark photobook An American Exodus, Life and Aperture magazines, an illustrated guide to minimize racism in jury trials, and many more. These contexts are punctuated with original contributions from a distinguished group of contemporary writers, artists and critical thinkers, including Julie Ault, Kimberly Juanita Brown, River Encalada Bullock, Sam Contis, Jennifer Greenhill, Lauren Kroiz, Sally Mann, Sandra Phillips, Wendy Red Star, Christina Sharpe, Rebecca Solnit, Robert Slifkin and Tess Taylor.

Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) operated a successful San Francisco portrait studio in the 1920s before going on to work with the Resettlement Administration (and later the Farm Security Administration) documenting the hardships of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl migration. During World War II, Lange worked for the US government photographing the Japanese American internment camps, and California’s wartime economy. Lange’s photographs were published widely during her lifetime. Lange worked closely with curator John Szarkowski on a retrospective that opened posthumously in 1966 at the Museum of Modern Art.



PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 70 color / 75 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 9   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781633451049 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CDN $77.00

AVAILABILITY
In stock

in stock  $55.00


Free Shipping

UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS

Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea LangeLast West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
By Tess Taylor.

In Last West, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange’s winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys, Lange photographed migrant laborers, Dust Bowl refugees, tent cities and Japanese American internment camps. Taylor’s hybrid text collages lyric and oral histories against Lange’s own journals and notebook fragments, framing the ways social and ecological injustices of the past rhyme eerily with those of the present. The result is a stunning meditation on movement, landscape and place.

“Scintillatingly rendered by Taylor as conversation, meditation, road trip, and vivid documentary account, Last West tracks the not-so-distant past into the erupting present, taking on as many poetic forms as there are California topographies.” –Forrest Gander, Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry



PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 5 x 7.75 in. / 64 pgs / 10 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 8   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781633451094 TRADE
List Price: $12.95 CDN $18.50

AVAILABILITY
In stock

in stock  $12.95


Free Shipping

UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS

Dorothea Lange: Migrant MotherDorothea Lange: Migrant Mother

MoMA One on One Series

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Text by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

The US was in the midst of the Depression when Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) began documenting its impact through depictions of unemployed men on the streets of San Francisco. Her success won the attention of Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration), and in 1935 she started photographing the rural poor under its auspices. One day in Nipomo, California, Lange recalled, she "saw and approached [a] hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet." The woman's name was Florence Owens Thompson, and the result of their encounter was seven exposures, including Migrant Mother. Curator Sarah Meister's essay provides a fresh context for this iconic work.



PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.25 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 140   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781633450660 TRADE
List Price: $14.95 CDN $21.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

Dorothea Lange: Aperture Masters of PhotographyDorothea Lange: Aperture Masters of Photography

Published by Aperture.
Text by Linda Gordon.

Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) documented rural poverty for the federal Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1939. Her powerful images--from migrant workers in California fleeing the “dustbowl,” to struggling Southern sharecroppers-- became icons of the era. She later photographed Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II and traveled throughout Europe and Asia. This book presents 42 of the greatest images from throughout Lange’s career, including some of her work done abroad. She possessed the ability, as she put it, to photograph “things as they are” and through this her photographs give us “more about the subjects than just the faces.” It is no wonder that Edward Steichen called her the greatest documentary photographer in the United States. Linda Gordon contributes a new biographical essay and an image-by-image commentary to accompany a newly selected set of photographs. A professor of humanities and history at New York University, she has written at length on Dorothea Lange. Her 2009 book, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, won the Bancroft Prize.
“Lange’s work defines an era of destitution and drought, and still resonates even now. This is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest photojournalists.”--Practical Photography, from a review of the original edition.

PUBLISHER
Aperture

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 42 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
No longer our product

DISTRIBUTION
Contact Publisher
Catalog:

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781597112956 TRADE
List Price: $18.95 CDN $25.00

AVAILABILITY
Not Available

Dorothea Lange: The Crucial YearsDorothea Lange: The Crucial Years

Published by La Fábrica.
Text by Oliva María Rubio, Sandra Philips, Jack von Euw.

In 1935, the photographer Dorothea Lange joined Franklin D. Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration project, charged with the task of inventing an iconography that would record and convey the tales of Depression-era America. It was a task that forced Lange's photography to evolve from its then portrait-based character, as she stepped out into the streets to document the woes of the Great Depression, thus creating what is today her most legendary body of work. Gathering powerful images of displaced farmers, sharecroppers and migrant workers (such as the classic "Migrant Mother") with her Graflex camera, Lange put a human face to this difficult era, and revolutionized documentary photography. She obtained results without forcing them, instead just "sitting down on the ground with people, letting children look at your camera with their dirty, grimy little hands, and putting their fingers on the lens, and you just let them, because you know that if you will behave in a generous manner, you are apt to receive it." The Decisive Years surveys the various topics that Lange approached throughout the 1930s and 1940s, with an important selection of her work for the War Relocation Authority (on the evacuation and relocation of the American citizens of Japanese origin)--only a few of which have ever been reproduced in catalogues--and her documentations of farmers' communities in California and Arizona, and the Conference of the United Nations in San Francisco.
Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895. In 1941, Lange was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for excellence in photography. She was a co-founder of Aperture magazine.

PUBLISHER
La Fábrica

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 186 pgs / 140 tritone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 171   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788492498758 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CDN $72.50 GBP £48.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

Dorothea Lange: Photographs Of A LifetimeDorothea Lange: Photographs Of A Lifetime

An Aperture Monograph

Published by Aperture.
Essay by Robert Coles. Afterword by Therese Heyman.

Reprinted for the first time, this is the most comprehensive collection of the photographer's work ever published. It includes portraits from her early years as a fashionable studio photographer as well as classic images that established her as the preeminent documentary artist of her time. “Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime captures--like all of her work--the extraordinary in the commonplace, with rare candor, compassion, and dignity.”
--Elle magazine.

PUBLISHER
Aperture

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 184 pgs / 174 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
No longer our product

DISTRIBUTION
Contact Publisher
Catalog:

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780893816575 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $70.00

AVAILABILITY
Not Available

Dorothea Lange: Photographs Of A LifetimeDorothea Lange: Photographs Of A Lifetime

An Aperture Monograph

Published by Aperture.
Notes by Dorothea Lange. Essay by Robert Coles. Afterword by Therese Heyman.

Reprinted for the first time, this is the most comprehensive collection of the photographer's work ever published. It includes portraits from her early years as a fashionable studio photographer as well as classic images that established her as the preeminent documentary artist of her time. “Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime captures--like all of her work--the extraordinary in the commonplace, with rare candor, compassion, and dignity.”
--Elle magazine.

PUBLISHER
Aperture

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 184 pgs / 174 reproductions throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
No longer our product

DISTRIBUTION
Contact Publisher
Catalog:

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780893818357 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CDN $40.00

AVAILABILITY
Not Available

Dorothea Lange: An American ExodusDorothea Lange: An American Exodus

A Record of Human Erosion

Published by Editions Jean-Michel Place.
Photographs by Dorothea Lange. Contributions by Paul Taylor.

First published in 1939, An American Exodus is one of the masterpieces of the documentary genre. Produced by incomparable documentary photographer Dorothea Lange with text by her husband, Paul Taylor, An American Exodus was taken in the early 1930s while the couple were working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) The book documents the rural poverty of the depression-era exodus that brought over 300,000 migrants to California in search of farm work, a westward mass migration driven by economic deprivation as opposed to the Manifest Destiny of 19th century pioneers. This facsimile edition of the original volume reintroduces this sought-after work of artÛa pioneering book that was among the first to combine photographs with oral testimonyÛto a contemporary audience, providing an insight into the struggles of the Depression as well as offering a profound and timeless look at the human condition.

PUBLISHER
Editions Jean-Michel Place

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.36 x 10.03 in. / 196 pgs / 180 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
No longer our product

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2000

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9782858935130 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CDN $40.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

print doc