Oral history interview with Dorothea Lange
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 51 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lange, Dorothea
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Farm Security Administration.Historical Section.Photographs
label: Names
content: Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
label: Names
content: Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985
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content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
label: Names
content: Vachon, John, 1914-1975
label: Names
content: Vanderbilt, Paul
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- California
label: Topic
content: New Deal art
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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content: Documentary photography -- United States
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women photographers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Lange, Dorothea
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was a photographer in California. Lange worked on FSA photograph project during the Depression.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 May 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lange64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Dorothea Lange conducted 1964 May 22, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Lange speaks of her decision of photography as a career; working in commercial photography; the development of her individual style; the organization of the Farm Security Administration and her association with it; camaraderie among the FSA staff; Roy Stryker's influence and guidance and political abilities; the subjects of photographs and their reactions to being photographed; the people she encountered and her feelings about them, including migratory workers and Dust Bowl farmers; opinions of her colleagues; what made the FSA a success; trends in the field of photography and photojournalism and its future.
label: Scope and Contents
content: She recalls Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon and Paul Vanderbilt.