Seeing People

Seeing People - An in-depth look at portraiture, identity and inequality as they appear in Dorothea Lange's iconic photographs. \n \nDorothea Lange (1895-1965) aimed to make photographs that are, in his own words, "important and useful." The research which she has conducted for decades on how photography could express the core values ​​and identity of people contributed to broadening our current understanding of portraiture and meaning of documentary practice. \n \nThe sensitive portraits of Lange, which show the common humanity of often marginalized people, have played a vital role in public understanding of broad issues social in the 20th century. Compassion guided Lange's early portraits of indigenous populations of Arizona and New Mexico in the 1920s and 1930, as well as his depictions of striking workers, migrant farmers, of African Americans living in rural areas, of Japanese Americans in the internment camps and people she met during her travels in Europe, Asia and Latin America. \n \nBased on new research, the authors examine Lange's origins in the field of studio portraiture and demonstrate how his influential photographs and widely disseminated have addressed issues of identity as well as social, economic and racial inequalities - themes that also remain relevant to our times as they were to his.