Dorothea Lange: Part 2, The closer for me

Series: USA: Photography

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1965

Creator: Indiana University AudioVisual Center

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Filmed shortly before her death, photographer Dorothea Lange discusses the artistic and social responsibilities of her art with particular emphasis on her work for the Farm Security Administration in the thirties. Planning for an exhibition of her work of fifty years at the Museum of Modern Art, Lange talks to Dr. Peter Otergard, Professor of Political Science, University of California, about a new photographic project - an updated study of American national life centering on the new metropolis.

Complete Record: Filmed shortly before her death, photographer Dorothea Lange discusses the artistic and social responsibilities of her art with particular emphasis on her work for the Farm Security Administration in the thirties. Planning for an exhibition of her work of fifty years at the Museum of Modern Art, Lange talks to Dr. Peter Otergard, Professor of Political Science, University of California, about a new photographic project - an updated study of American national life centering on the new metropolis.