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Taos, New Mexico
Creator
Dorothea LangeAmerican Photographer · 1895–1965
All works by this person →Born Dorothea Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey, to first-generation German Americans, Dorothea Lange was stricken at age seven with polio, which left her right leg and foot disfigured. Her father abandoned the family when she was twelve. After high school, she apprenticed with portrait photographer Arnold Genthe in Manhattan and studied with Clarence H. White at Columbia University’s Teacher’s Coll
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- 1931
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 699d50ed-8ee5-4c07-b980-78cfe37330b6
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This 1931 gelatin silver print by Dorothea Lange puts you directly behind a male dancer at Taos Pueblo, his bare back turned to the camera, a white headdress and dark feathers rising from his head, animal hide wrapped at his waist. Behind him, a procession of dancers stretches across the plaza toward low adobe buildings in the distance. Lange made this photograph before her iconic Depression-era work, and its unconventional angle places the viewer inside the ceremony rather than watching from a safe distance.
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A male dancer viewed from the back, possibly at Taos Pueblo.
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