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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
- 9ce35e34-9419-42f8-94aa-938c581715ba
From LinkedCulture
In 1931, three years before her iconic Depression-era photographs, Dorothea Lange pointed her camera at a dancer at Taos Pueblo. The bare-chested figure stands mid-motion, a gourd rattle in one hand and small leafy branches in the other, the adobe structures of the Pueblo rising behind him in the bright sun. This gelatin silver print matters because it captures Indigenous ceremonial life at a moment when such gatherings had only recently emerged from decades of federal suppression, revealing the human dignity at the heart of Lange's vision from the very beginning.
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A dancer at Taos Pueblo. He is bare-chested, holding a gourd rattle in one hand, and small branches in the other.
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