1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1895–1965 · UNITED STATES
Dorothea Lange
Humane documentary portraits of the dispossessed.
- Born
- 1895
- Died
- 1965
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1936Migrant Mother
- 1939An American Exodus
WHY THEY MATTER
First woman awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for photography (1941); MoMA's first solo retrospective of a woman photographer; Migrant Mother is at the Art Institute of Chicago.
THE LIFE
Lange made her name with Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Her 1936 picture Migrant Mother became the defining image of the Dust Bowl. In 1941 she became the first woman awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for photography, and she later documented Japanese American internment. Three months after her death, the Museum of Modern Art opened a retrospective she had helped plan.
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia