Photographs of Dorothea Lange

Excerpted from Image and Imagination: Encounters with the Photography of Dorothea Lange. Ed. by Ben Clarke

Writer-in-residence at the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Public Library, Ben Clarke, re-examines Dorothea Lange's photographs along with collaborating artists including: A.K. Black, Scott Braley, Lucha Corpi, Kitty Costello, Maketa Groves, Richard Oyama, Margot Pepper, Eric Robertson, Clifton Ross, Abena Songbird, and Rhett Stuart. Using poetry, personal essay, rap and contemporary photography the artists explore the intersection between Lange's documentary photography and current realities.

Farm Security Administration Photos

War Relocation Authority Photos

Scott Braley photographs from Image and Imagination

Farm Security Administration Photographs
by Dorothea Lange from Image and Imagination: Encounters with the Photogrpahy of Dorothea Lange, Edited by Ben Clarke

Title/Caption Source Ref. Number

• Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936. L.C.; 9058C
  
• Langes "outtake" images from the Migrant Mother
  Migrant Family, Nipomo, California, 1936. L.C.; 9098C
  Migrant Family, Nipomo, California, 1936. L.C.; 9094C
  Migrant Family, Nipomo, California, 1936. L.C.; 9097C
  Migrant Family, Nipomo, California, 1936. L.C.; 9093C
  Migrant Family, Nipomo, California, 1936. L.C.; 9095C
  
• "Slept in a bed all my life long, till now--sleeping on the ground." Near Redding California, May 1935. B.L./L.C.; 9474E
  
• Mexican laborers off for the melon fields, Imperial Valley, CA, June 1935 . B.L./L.C.; 1620C
  
• Cotton Picker, San Joaquin Valley, CA, November 1938. B.L./L.C.; 18396E
  
• Camp of single men by roadside, Nipoma, CA, Jan. 1935. B.L./L.C.; 8062E
  
• Drought refugees hoping for cotton work, Blythe CA, 1936. B.L/L.C.; 9665E
  
• Drought refugees hoping for cotton work, Blythe CA, 1936 . B.L/L.C.; 9666E
  
• Man with grapes, San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938 . B.L./L.C.; 9926E
  
• Mother and children on the road, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939 . L.C.; 20993E
  
• Bindlestiff, backbone of the IWW, Napa Valley, CA 1938 . B.L./L.C.; 18801E
  
• Child and her mother, Wapato, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. L.C.; 20397C

War Relocation Authority Photos taken by Dorothea Lange
From the book Image and Imagination: Encounters with the Photogrpahy of Dorothea Lange, Edited by Ben Clarke

• Friends and neighbors say goodbye, San Francisco,CA April, 1942 . B.L./N.A.R.A.; 14GC-422
  
• Soldier smiling, Civil Control Station, Registration for evacuation and processing. San Francisco, April, 1942 . B.L./N.A.R.A.; 14GA-531
  
• Tagged girl, Oakland, 1942 . O.P.L/N.A.R.A.; 14GC-580
  
• Leaving the strawberry fields, 1942 . B.L./N.A.R.A.; 14GA-272
  
• Pledge of allegiance at Rafael Weill Elementary School a few weeks prior to evacuation, April, 1942 . B.L./ N.A.R.A.; 14GA-78
  
• Evacuee stands by her baggage. Centerville, CA, May 1943 . B.L./N.A.R.A.; 14GC-241
  
• Altar flowers for last service before evacuation, Kay Keiko Uchida, Oakland, CA, April 1942 . B.L./N.A.R.A.; 14GA-541
  
• Buddhist priest locks temple, Florin, CA, Spring 1942. B.L./N.A.R.A.; 14GC-542

Photographs by Scott Braley,

From the book Image and Imagination: Encounters with the Photogrpahy of Dorothea Lange, Edited by Ben Clarke

• Shadow, Scott and Rufus, 1990
  
• Cynthia in Alameda County Jail, 1991
  
• Rufus leaving his place, an abandoned hotel, 1990
  
• Rufus leaving Oakland Jail, 1991
  
• Rufus with judge in Oakland, 1991
  
• Homeless Native woman and dog, Peoples Park, Berkeley, 1992

Photographs in the book, Image and Imagination not on-line.

Centerville, CA, May 1943 . O.M./N.A.R.A.; 82.83.7

Man Beside Wheelbarrow, San Francisco, 1934. O.M.; 67.137.34013

Walking Wounded, Oakland CA, 1954. O.M.; 80.103.343

Untitled (Child with Sarape), Southwest, ca. 1930. O.M.; 67.137.5895

Untitled (Old woman and child), Southwest, ca. 1930. O.M.; 67.137.6024

First Born, Berkeley, California, 1952. O.M.; 67.137.52113

Girls at Soquel Creek, California, ca. 1930. O.M.; 69.40.15

Hands, Maynard and Dan Dixon, ca 1930. O.M.; 67.137.5893

Untitled (Two women against wall), Southwest, ca. 1930. O.M.;67.137.6135

Untitled (Haircut), Near Winters, California, 1935. O.M.;67.137.35161

Freewheeling, Oakland, CA, 1951. O.M.; 67.137.45024

Michael Kelly has repaired shoes all his life. Ennis Ireland, 1954. O.M.; 67.137.54079

Grandaughter of a Spanish Don, born in California before it was a state, 1943. O.M.; 67.137.93220

Mexican field laborer arriving in station at Sacramento. CA. Oct. 6, 1942 . O.M.; 67.137.93069

Cemetery, Imperial Valley, CA, 1935. O.M.; 67.137.8035

Untitled (Girl on truck), San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1935 . O.M.; 67.137.35168.1

Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma 1936 . O.M.; 80.103.470

Drought stricken farmers, idled in town, Sallisaw, Oklahoma, August 1936 . O.M./L.C.; 67.137.9669

Pre-trial jail cell, from the public defender series, 1955-57 . O.M.; 67.137.57104.5

Judge Fox, Oakland, CA, 1957. O.M.; 67.137.57125

Attorney interviews client, from the public defender series, Oakland, CA, 1957 . O.M.; 67.137.93140

Untitled (Public defender in court with client), from the public defender series, Oakland, CA, 1955-57. O.M.; 67.137.93145

Untitled (Client's wife, outside courtroom), from the public defender series, Oakland, CA, 1955-57 . O.M.; 67.137.93139

Untitled (Swearing in Witness), from the public defender series, Oakland, CA, 1955-57. O.M.; 67.137.93876

Untitled, (Woman by trailer)Richmond, California, 1942. O.M.; 67.137.42113.1

Ex-slave with a long memory, Alabama, 1938. O.M./L.C.; 67.137.38164

Civil ControlStation, Oakland,May 1942 . O.P.L/N.A.R.A.; 14GC-373

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