Dorothea Lange. Introduction by George Elliott. New York:
The Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman.
Commentary by Beaumont Newhall. Los Angeles: Amon Carter Museum at Fort
Worth and Ward Ritchie Press, 1967.
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime: An Aperture Monograph.
Essay by Robert Coles. Oakland: Aperture Foundation, Inc., 1982.
Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Essays by Sandra
Philips, John Szarkowski, Therese Thau Heyman. San Francisco: Chronicle
Books, 1994.
Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life. Elizabeth Partridge, ed.,
Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, D.C., 1994.
The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Introduction by Keith F.
Davis. Kansas City: Hallmark Cards, 1995.
Photographing the Second Gold Rush: Dorothea Lange and the Bay Area
at War, 1941 – 1945. Introduction by Charles Wollenberg. Berkeley:
Heyday Books, 1995.
Dorothea Lange’s Ireland. Text by Gerry Mullins; Essay by Daniel
Dixon. Boulder, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1998.
Dorothea Lange Commentary by Mark Durden. New York: Phaidon Press
Limited, 2001.
Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Pierre
Borhan with Essays by A.D. Coleman, Ralph Gibson, and San Stourdze.
Boston: A Bulfinch Press Book, 2002.
Articles and other works
by Dorothea Lange
(arranged chronologically)
"Documentary Photography," A Pageant of Photography. In San
Francisco: Palace of Fine Arts. San Francisco: Crocker‑Union, 1949.
"Irish Country People." Life, 21 March 1955, pp. 135‑43.
"The Assignment I'll Never Forget: Migrant Mother." Popular
Photography 46:2 (February 1960):42.
"The American Farm Woman." Harvester World 51:11 (November
1960):2‑9.
"Women of the American Farm." America Illustrated (U.S.I.A.),
Russian ed. 70 (November 1962):56‑61.
“Tribute to Charles Russell.” In Paper Talk: Illustrated Letters of
Charles M. Russell, edited by Frederic Renner, p. 3, cover ill. Fort
Worth: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1962.
"Remembrance of Asia." In Photography Annual 1964, pp. 50‑59.
New York: Ziff‑Davis, 1963.
Lange, Dorothea and Adams, Ansel. "Fortune's Wheel.” Fortune
31:2 (February 1945):10.
________________. "Three Mormon Towns." Life, 6 September
1954, pp. 91-100.
Lange, Dorothea, and Dixon, Daniel. "Photographing the Familiar."
Aperture 1:2 (1952):4‑15.
Lange, Dorothea, and Jones, Pirkle. "Death of a Valley." Aperture
8:3 (1960):127‑65.
Lange, Dorothea, and Taylor, Paul Schuster. An American
Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939.
Rev. ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in
association with The Oakland Museum, 1969.
Collections and Resources of Lange’s Life
and Work
Collections:
The Oakland Museum, Prints and Photographs Division, Oakland,
California. The Dorothea Lange Collection of negatives prints, notebooks,
travel journals, correspondence, covering all phases of her work. The
most complete source for her personal photography.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
The Farm Security Administration Collection: the most complete set of FSA
photographs by Lange, including caption material. Also notebooks on work
done in 1935 for California’s Emergency Relief Administration and some
Lange photographs made for the War Relocation Authority.
National Archives, contains Lange’s photographs and caption material
made for the War Relocation Authority and the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics.
Levin, Howard M., and Northrup, Katherine, eds. Dorothea
Lange: Farm Security Photographs, 1935‑1939. 2 vols. Glencoe, Illinois: The
Text‑Fiche Press, 1980.
University of Louisville. Photographic Archives, Louisville, Kentucky.
The Roy Stryker Collection. This collection is the most complete source of letters and
clippings on the Farm Security Administration’s Historical Section headed
by Stryker. Contains correspondence between Stryker and Lange.
The Museum of Modern Art, Photography Library, New York City. The
Dorothea Lange file contains catalogues, clippings, correspondence, other
material related chiefly to her exhibits here.
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington and New
York. Collection of interviews with FSA photographers.
Primary Sources
[Lange, Dorothea]. "A Selection of Some of the Best Photographs of
Migrant Workers, 1935‑1936." Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress:
Selective Checklist of Prints and Photographs. Lot No. 4699, p. 65.
Dorothea Lange. The Making of a Documentary Photographer.
Interview (conducted 1960‑61) by Suzanne Riess. Berkeley:
Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, 1968.
Interview with Richard K. Doud. Washington, D.C.: Archives of American Art, 22
May 1964.
Riess, Suzanne, and Chall, Malca. Paul Schuster Taylor: California
Social Scientist. Volume One. Interviews conducted 1970‑72.
Berkeley: Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, 1975.
Major Works about Lange
(arranged alphabetically
by author)
Green, Philip, and Katz, Robert. Dorothea Lange, Part One: Under the
Trees, and Dorothea Lange, Part Two: The Closer for Me. KQED
Film Unit Production: June, 1965 (16mm b/w, sound, 30 minutes each part).
Heyman, Therese Thau. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of
Dorothea Lange. Oakland, California: The Oakland Museum, 1978.
Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. New
York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978.
Ohm, Karin B. Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
Partridge, Elizabeth. Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea
Lange. New York: Viking; Books for Young Readers, 1998.
Secondary Resources (Arranged Alphabetically by
Author)
Allan R. Hite Art Institute. USA‑FSA, Farm Security Administration
Photographs of the Depression Era. Louisville, Kentucky: University
of Louisville, 1962.
"An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion, by Dorothea
Lange and Paul Schuster Taylor" (book review). U.S. Camera 1:9 (May
1940):62.
Anderson, James C.; Kytle, Calvin; and Doherty, Robert J. Roy
Stryker: The Humane Propagandist. Louisville, Kentucky: University of
Louisville Photographic Archives, 1977.
Anderson, Sherwood. Home Town: Photographs by Farm Security
Photographers. New York: Alliance, 1940.
Baldwin, C. "Documentary Expression and Thirties America, by
William Stott" (book review). Artforum 13 (May 1974):67‑68.
Baldwin, Sidney. Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Decline of the
Farm Security Administration. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1968.
Barnitz, Jacqueline. "Dorothea Lange" [review of the exhibition at The
Museum of Modern Art]. Arts 40:6 (April 1966):53.
Benson, John. "The Dorothea Lange Retrospective, The Museum of Modem
Art, New York." Aperture 12:4 (1965):40‑57.
Busch, Arthur J. "Fellowships for Photographers." Popular
Photography 11:4 (October 1942):22.
Coke, Van Deren. "Dorothea Lange, Compassionate Recorder." Modern
Photography 37 (May 1973):90‑95.
Coleman, A. D. "A Dark Day in History." New York Times, 24
September 1972, Section D, p. 19.
Conrat, Maisie, and Conrat, Richard. Executive Order 9066: The
Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Cambridge, Mass.:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972.
________________. The American Farm: A Photographic History.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company and California Historical Society,
1977.
________________. "Lange and Conrat, a Relationship of Conflict but
Great Productivity." Popular Photography 70:6 (June
1972):32.
Deschin, Jacob.
"Dorothea Lange and Her Printer." Popular
Photography 59:1 (July 1966):28.
Curtis, James. Mind’s Eye, Mind’s Truth: FSA Photography
Reconsidered. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Dixon, Daniel. "Dorothea Lange." Modern Photography 16:12
(December 1952):68.
Doherty, Robert J., Jr. "U.S.A.‑F.S.A.: Farm Security Administration
Photographs of the Depression Era." Camera 41:10 (October 1962):7,
9‑51, cover ill.
"Dorothea Lange." Obituary in Berkeley Daily Gazette, 13 October
1965.
"Dorothea Lange." In Great Photographers, pp. 184‑87. Life
Library of Photography. New York: Time‑Life, 1971.
Frakenstein, Alfred. "A Lone Lady with a Camera." San
Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 1978, p. 46.
Fleischhauer, Carl, and Beverly W. Brannan, eds. Documenting
America, 1935 – 1943. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 1988.
French, Warren. Film Guide to "The Grapes of Wrath."
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
"F.S.A. Historische Bilddokumente aus den U.S.A." Fotografie
19:7 (July 1965): 246‑51.
Garver, Thomas H. Just Before the War: Urban America
from 1935 to 1941. Boston: Newport Harbor Art Museum,
1968
Gernsheim, Helmut. Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839‑1960.
London: Faber & Faber, 1962.
Getlein, Frank. "Paintings and Photographs." New Republic, 19
March 1966, pp. 33‑35.
Goldsmith, Arthur. “A Harvest of Truth: The Dorothea Lange
Retrospective Exhibition." Infinity 15:3 (March 1966):23‑30.
Gruber, L. Fritz. "Dorothea Lange." In Grosse Photographen
unseresjahrhunderts, pp. 68‑73. Darmstadt: Deutsche Buch‑Gemeinschaft,
1964.
Gutman, Judith M. Lewis Hine and the American Social Conscience.
New York: Walker, 1967.
Herz, Nat. "Dorothea Lange in Perspective: A Reappraisal of the Farm
Security Administration and an Interview." Infinity 12:4 (April
1963):5‑11.
Heyman, Therese Thau. "Looking at Lange Today." Exposure: The
Journal of the Society for Photographic Education 16:2
(Summer 1978):26‑33.
Howe, Hartley E. "You Have Seen Their Pictures." Survey Graphic 29:4
(April 1940):236‑41.
_______________. Portrait of a Decade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 1972.
Hurley, F. Jack. Portrait of a Decade: Roy Stryker and the
Development of Documentary Photography in the Thirties. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University, 1972.
Issler, Anne Roller. "Good Neighbors Lend a Hand: Our Mexican Workers."
Survey Graphic 32:10 (December 1943):389‑94.
Kehl, D. G. "Steinbeck's 'String of Pictures' in The Grapes of Wrath."
Image 17:1 (March 1974):1‑10.
Kozloff, Max. "Territory of Photographs." Artforum 13 (November
1974):64‑67.
Lenz, Herm. "Interview with Three Greats." U.S. Camera 18:8 (August
1955):84‑87.
Life: Documentary Photography. Life Library of Photography.
New York: TimeLife, 1972.
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Sloan & Pearce, 1941.
MacLeish, Archibald. Land of the Free. New York: Harcourt,
Brace, 1938.
Miller, Wayne. Obituary of Dorothea Lange. Camera 4 (April
1966).
_______________. "Dorothea Lange." Unpublished eulogy distributed by
Magnum Photos, 1965.
"Miss Lange's Counsel: Photographer Advises Use of Picture Themes."
New York Times, 7 December 1952, Section II, p. 23.
Mitchell, Margaretta, and Lange, Dorothea. To a Cabin.
New York: Grossman, 1973.
Morrison, Chester. "Dorothea Lange: Friend of Vision." Look, 22
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McWilliams, Carey. Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory
Farm Labor in California. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 1999. Published originally in 1935.
Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography: From 1839 to the
Present Day. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1949.
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Nixon, Herman Clarence. Forty Acres and Steel Mules. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina, 1938.
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1965):26‑27.
_______________. "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows in
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Penny, Lucretia. "Pea‑Picker's Child." Survey Graphic 24:7
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Journalism, University of Missouri, 1959.
________________. "Cameras with a Purpose: The Photojournalists of FSA."
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the Road to the Grapes of Wrath. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1988.
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1970.
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Stryker, Roy Emerson, and Wood, Nancy. In This Proud Land: America
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________________. "From the Ground Up." Survey Graphic
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________________. "Our Stakes in the Japanese Exodus." Survey
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________________. "Migrant Mother: 1936." American West (May
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Taylor, Paul Schuster, and Gold, Norman Leon. "San Francisco and the
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Films
Schulz‑Keil, Wieland. Bread and Roses. A New Deal for the Arts
1935‑1943. Part IV: Photography (16mm color, sound, 45 minutes).
Xerox Films. A Woman's Place. (16mm color, sound, 52 minutes).
