Dorothea Lange
American Photographer · 1895–1965
37 works on LinkedCulture
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
Works
After Church, Toquerville, Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
Amana Society Village, Iowa
Getty Museum · negative 1941; print about 1960s
"A Man's Beginnings Stay with Him", Toquerville, Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
Antonio Mirabel, Taos, New Mexico
Getty Museum · 1931
Bessie, Daughter of Zion, Toquerville, Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
Boots, Hides, Watering Can, Southwestern Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
Cantaloupe Pickers, Mexicans, at End of Day in California Melon Fields / Mexican Labor Off for the Melon Fields in the Imperial Valley, California
Getty Museum · July 1935
Church Service, Toquerville, Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
Cowboy Motel Sign, Utah - Nevada border
Getty Museum · 1953
Egypt
Getty Museum · 1962–1963
Ennistymon Livestock Market, County Clare, Ireland
Getty Museum · 1954
Full Moon, Southwestern Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
![[Gesturing Farm Worker, Probably Imperial Valley, California]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3f5191ed-2e4e-443f-8d82-bb2245159c80/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Gesturing Farm Worker, Probably Imperial Valley, California]
Getty Museum · negative 1935; print about 1960
Girl in Shawl, Taos, New Mexico
Getty Museum · 1931
Grandfather and Grandson, Manzanar, Owens Valley, California
Getty Museum · 1942
Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother)
Getty Museum · March 1936
In a Bakery, Amana Society Village, Iowa
Getty Museum · 1941
Interior View of Japanese-American Citizens League Headquarters, Centerville, California
Getty Museum · negative April 7, 1942; print about 1960s
J.R. Butler, President of the Southern Tennant Farmers union, Memphis, Tennessee
Getty Museum · negative June 1938; print about 1950s
Juniper Tree, Southwestern Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
Leaving Church, Toquerville, Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
Lovers, Richmond, California
Getty Museum · 1942
Mary Ann Savage, Toquerville, Utah
Getty Museum · about 1933–1934
Michael Kelly, Cobbler, Ennis, County Clare, Ireland
Getty Museum · 1954
Michael Kennally, County Clare, Ireland
Getty Museum · 1954
Mormon Couple, Gunlock, Utah
Getty Museum · 1954
O'Halloran Farm, Mount Callan, County Clare, Ireland
Getty Museum · 1954
Pledge of Allegiance, Raphael Weill Elementary School, San Francisco
Getty Museum · negative April 20, 1942; print about 1960s
Road Sign - Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
Road Sign, Utah
Getty Museum · 1953
Serviceman Star in Bungalow Window
Getty Museum · 1940s
Stoop Labor in Cotton Field, San Joaquin Valley, California
Getty Museum · 1938
Street Meeting, San Francisco / "Here Democracy Survives" / "What's Ahead?"
Getty Museum · 1934
![[The Road West / Highway to the West, U.S. 54 in Southern New Mexico]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/842bf5c5-9743-4765-b72d-0011548b092e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The Road West / Highway to the West, U.S. 54 in Southern New Mexico]
Getty Museum · negative 1938; print 1965
Utah House in Dappled Sunlight
Getty Museum · 1953
Woman with Chickens, Taos, New Mexico
Getty Museum · 1931
Young Mother and Son, Gunlock, Washington County, Utah
Getty Museum · 1953