{"id":483,"date":"2008-12-09T16:14:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T16:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=483"},"modified":"2008-12-09T16:14:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T16:14:50","slug":"daring-to-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Daring to Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest issue of The Digital Journalist<\/em> as always contains much of interest. One item that particularly struck me was a review by by J B Colson <\/em>of the book by Anne Whiston Spirn<\/em>, “Daring to Look,” which takes a new look at the work of Dorothea Lange<\/em> and appears to give a much more detailed insight into how she actually worked.\u00a0 She concentrates her attention on the projects Lange undertook in 1939.<\/p>\n

The link at the bottom of the page leads to a good selection of Lange’s work, mainly from the collection of the Library of Congress.\u00a0 You can of course go and see more there;\u00a0 a Creator serach<\/a> on Dorothea Lange returns over 4000 records, and most appear to have digitised images. So here is one you almost certainly haven’t seen before!<\/p>\n

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\nWife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico, Dorothea Lange, 1936 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a special feature on the variants of her ‘Migrant Mother<\/a>‘ picture and if you would like your own print to hang on your wall you can download a 55Mb Tiff file<\/a> made from the original nitrate negative (55 Mb may well take some time to download.)\u00a0 A 30Mb TIFF made from a print is also available, but shows considedrable damage to the print.<\/p>\n

You can also read the story of this picture from another point of view. According to the grandson<\/a> of Florence (Owens) Thompson<\/em>, the woman in the picture, a well-dressed woman jumped out of a smart newish car and started taking pictures, getting closer with each shot. Florence decide to ignore her.<\/p>\n

After taking the pictures, Lange is said to have told Florence who she was and that she was working for the Farm Security Administration <\/em>and to have promised that the pictures would not be published. Next day they made the front page of all the newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest issue of The Digital Journalist as always contains much of interest. One item that particularly struck me was a review by by J B Colson of the book by Anne Whiston Spirn, “Daring to Look,” which takes a new look at the work of Dorothea Lange and appears to give a much more … Continue reading Daring to Look<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-history","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}