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Monday, December 29, 2014

Dorothea Lange, The Eye of a Photographer by June Avignone

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Book: Dorothea Lange, The Eye of a Photographer
Author: June Avignone
ISBN: 978-0-02-203058-2

Chapter 1: Looking Closely at the World

1. Dorothea Lange was born in 1895.
2. Dorothea was born in Hoboken, New Jersey.
3. She contracted polio.
4. Polio left her with a bad limp on her right foot.
5. They both moved to New York City.
6. Columbia University was the university that Lange attended.
7. The name of her professor was Clarence H. White.

Chapter 2: Portraits by a Young Artist

8. At age 22, Lange moved to San Francisco, California.
9. Dorothea Lange
10. The name of her husband was Maynard Dixon.
11. They had 2 boys.
12. Daniel and John were the names of the boys.
13. “Dixon made his living painting western scenes.
14. The stock market crashed.
15. There were 15 million people out of work.
16. They had to sell their home.
17. It is known as “The Great Depression.”
18. She was known as the “White Angel.”

Chapter 3: Capturing the Great Depression

19.  Unemployment Benefits began by the New Deal Program.
20. Lange’s second husband’s name was Paul Taylor.
21. The Dust Bowl took place in the 1930s.
22. During the Dust Bowl, farms in the Midwest were hit by drought.  The soil turned to dust.  Farmers then headed west for work.
23. John Steinbeck wrote about this experience on his novel, “The Grapes of Wrath.”
24. False
25. Lange’s work is often called documentary photography because it records a time in history.



Chapter 4: World War II and Beyond

26. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
27. He gave the army the power to arrest over 100,000 Japanese-Americans.
28. She died on October 1, 1965.

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