Dorthea Lange's America at Krasl Center
Dorothea Lange’s America and 1940s Berrien County Photographs
On View at the Krasl Art Center
Exhibition Dates: November 20, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Free & Open to the Public
St. Joseph, MI, October 30, 2015:
DOROTHEA LANGE’S AMERICA
If it is a cliché that art and suffering can be closely connected, it is nonetheless true that the Great Depression was the catalyst for a tremendous outburst of creative energy in America’s photographic community. The devastation wreaked upon the country inspired a host of socially conscious photographers to capture the painful stories of the time.
Pre-eminent among the artists of this time was Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). Her empathetic images of migrant workers, suffering families, and tortured landscapes seared the faces of the Depression into America’s consciousness. Her most celebrated photographs of that era – Migrant Mother, White Angel Bradline, and Migratory Cotton Picker – have become icons in American cultural history.
This exhibition features 55 images total, by Lange and twelve of her contemporaries. Highlighted are oversized exhibition prints of her most iconic works. All works are from the collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. This exhibition is organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions.
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Breeze Ettl
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