LANGE, DOROTHEA (1895-1965) "Ex-Slave with a Long Memory, Alabama." Silver...

dorothea lange offered administration resettlement continued migrant best-remembered lange''s documenting looks workers asked cover faced photographs 1937 began work farm relief image years california stryker renamed images country passion depression security photographing produced reached year body consciousness remain programs traveled white alabama photographic human grew photograph issues memory silver american lives compassionate makers francisco decade university later 1935 state emergency couple ra/fsa payroll inextricably present poverty sympathetic facilitated depression-era prevalent economic canceled mexico projects mississippi black place emphasis tenants 1895-1965 printed utmost funds poignancy print 8x11 inches 20.3x28 flush mounted lange's signature recto notations woman ignored neglected makes career commercial portraitist 1919 moved early condition prints introduced paul taylor professor dealing budget cuts resulted government linked national relevant displacement necessity persuaded congress provide social period mid-april northwest journey tenancy arizona continue texas oklahoma arkansas georgia continual struggle reaching succinct know long mount west coast 20th city''s exhibition husband reports lack unaltered issue start activist instructions receive ex-slave verso 1950s private collection lifetime century dispossessed 1934 partner february copies awareness truthful south told despite audience stryker''s wider