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Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma

Dorothea Lange1936

George Eastman Museum

George Eastman Museum
Rochester, United States

Dorothea Lange began her career in photography in New York City in 1914 where she worked for photographer Arnold Genthe and studied with Clarence White. Lange left New York and opened her own portrait studio in San Francisco in 1919.

In 1935 she was hired by Roy Stryker for the Farm Security Administration based on work she had done with the economist Paul S. Taylor, whom she later married. Lange worked for the FSA periodically until 1939.

Between 1946 and 1951 Lange was photographically inactive due to illness. After 1951 she worked on several projects, including "The Irish Country People", "The Public Defender", and "The American Country Woman". She also traveled and photographed in Asia, Europe, and Egypt.

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  • Title: Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma
  • Creator: Dorothea Lange
  • Creator Lifespan: 1895 - 1965
  • Creator Nationality: American
  • Creator Gender: Female
  • Creator Death Place: San Francisco, CA
  • Creator Birth Place: Hoboken, NJ
  • Date Created: 1936
  • Location Created: Oklahoma, United States
  • Physical Dimensions: w19.3 x h24.3 cm (Image)
  • Type: Photograph
  • Rights: Public Domain, George Eastman House Collections
  • Medium: gelatin silver print
  • Place Part Of: United States
  • Materials Extent: complete
  • Inscriptions: verso (rubberstamp): Photography by Dorthea Lange 1163 Euclid Avenue Berkeley, California Telephone Landscape 4-3880 (rubberstamp): Study Collection Photography Department Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. (pencil): (little girl with fear)
  • Credit line: Museum Collection, by exchange; ex-collection Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Credit Line Source: George Eastman House
  • Credit Line Extent: complete
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