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About Dorothea Lange view detail comment email this

Contains brief background information on the photographer, a recollection of Lange in Berkeley by Clark Kerr, Lange's comments on her 1936 photograph "Migrant Mother," and a short bibliography. From the Dorothea Lange Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley.
http://www.berkeley.edu/lange/lange.html
Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photography

Last updated Nov 8, 2005


Artcyclopedia Search: Dorothea Lange [American Photographer, 1895-1965] view detail comment email this

Links to online exhibits picturing the artwork of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs documented conditions in California during the Great Depression and World War II.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/lange_dorothea.html
Topics: California: History, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections: History, Photography

Last updated Mar 6, 2004


Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection view detail comment email this

"This site provides access to 1800 of approximately 12,000 images from the Ulmann Photograph Collection." Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) "documented the rural people of the South, particularly the mountain peoples of Appalachia and the Gullahs of the Sea Islands," and also photographed intellectuals, artists, and writers. Searchable and browsable. From the University of Oregon Libraries.
http://boundless.uoregon.edu/digcol/ulmann/
Topics: Agriculture, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology, U.S. History By Place

Last updated Jul 17, 2007


The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946 view detail comment email this

A searchable collection of more than 5,000 photographs taken by Hedda Morrison "while resident in Beijing from 1933 to 1946." Also includes a chronology, publications about the photographer, a selected bibliography, and a list of the contents of the photographer's albums. From the Harvard-Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-yenching/collections/morrison/
Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photography

Last updated Oct 9, 2005


Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt: Side by Side view detail comment email this

Website accompanying a 2008 exhibit in which "[f]or the very first time Henri Cartier-Bresson and Helen Levitt, both internationally recognized twentieth century masters of street photography, [were] exhibited side by side." Includes a brief introduction to Levitt (1913-2009) and Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), and two pages of photos from the exhibition. From the Laurence Miller Gallery, New York.
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/levitt_hcb_sbs1.htm
Topics: Photography

Last updated Apr 6, 2009


Jim Dine: Photographs view detail comment email this

An exhibit of six "enigmatic photographs" by Jim Dine, "widely recognized as a key player in Pop Art, Happenings, and ... printmaking." Photographs dated 1996 through 1997. Includes essay and video. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/dine/
Topics: Artists, Notable People

Last updated Jun 10, 2006


Lee Miller Archive view detail comment email this

Photographer Lee Miller produced "portraits of her friends such as Pablo Picasso, and work[ed] as a correspondent with the US army in World War II. Beginning her own studio in Paris with artist Man Ray, she went on to work with Vogue, and in France, Egypt, and New York, being best remembered for her witty Surrealist images." This commercial archive features a gallery of Lee's photographs, news, biography, chronology, bibliography, and a list of exhibitions.
http://www.leemiller.co.uk/
Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Schools of Art

Last updated Oct 2, 2004


National Geographic's Women Photographers view detail comment email this

Brief profiles and works of Jodi Cobb, Karen Kasmauski, Maria Stenzel, Annie Griffiths Belt, and Sisse Brimberg, with their audio commentaries on the photos. Requires Flash. From the Newseum.
http://www.newseum.org/womenphotographers/
Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photography

Last updated Apr 12, 2004


Picturing the Century: Portfolio: Dorothea Lange view detail comment email this

Several photographs by Dorothea Lange, documenting conditions in California during the Great Depression and World War II. Includes a short biography of Lange. From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/portfolios/port_lange.html
Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections: History, Photography

Last updated Jul 28, 2005


Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II view detail comment email this

This exhibit focuses on eight women who chronicled American life during the war, both at home and overseas: Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Clare Boothe Luce, Janet Flanner, Esther Bubley, Dorothea Lange, and May Craig. Features biographical sketches and samples of their work as well as a brief history of women in journalism. Includes a list of women correspondents that worked during World War II. From the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/
Topics: Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections: History, Photography, Wars & Conflicts

Last updated Jan 11, 2006


Women Photographers view detail comment email this

An exhibit of photographs by 30 women, including Berenice Abbott, Imogen Cunningham, Olivia Parker, and Barbara Morgan. Includes commentary about each photographer. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/object_genres/photographers/women/default.html
Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photography

Last updated Aug 23, 2006




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