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An excerpt from an interview with Dorothea Lange, 1964, as part of the New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.

An excerpt from an interview with Dorothea Lange, 1964, as part of the New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.

In this interview, Lange discusses her experience with the New Deal Farm Security Administration, and the act of photographing a struggling society.

Citation Information: Excerpt from “Oral history interview with Dorothea Lange, 1964 May 22,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/6ad6fdfd0863e5721340cbb3c4df9c3e.

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Courtesy of the Archives of American Art via the Smithsonian Institution.

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An excerpt from an interview with Dorothea Lange, 1964, as part of the New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.

A 1936 photograph by Dorothea Lange, Migrants. California.

Walker Evans titled this 1937 photo Negroes in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas.

A Metropolitan Life exhibit, 1939 World’s Fair, captioned “Life insurance funds make possible the security for those whose work is done.”

John Brown, a lithograph by John Steuart Curry from 1939, depicts Brown’s growing agitation and the “storm” it provoked.

A 1937 mural of a textile worker from the thirteen-part fresco by Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn for a post office in Bronx, NY.

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