Dorothea LANGE<br/> <em>Texas Panhandle: Power farming displaces tenants in cotton areas</em> (1938); (c. 1975) {printed} <!-- (recto) --><br /> gelatin silver photograph<br /> 36.3 x 49.4 cm (image) 40.6 x 50.5 cm (sheet)<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased, 1975<br /> PH97-1975<br /> <!--8161-->

Here Comes the New Woman! Women Photographers in the Twentieth Century: A New Deal – Documentary Photographs

Find out about how the radical and completely new medium of photography turned ideas of social documentation and art upside down, and the women at the forefront of photography in the early twentieth century. This week’s episode covers the documentary photographs of Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wollcott, Margaret Bourke-White, Marjory Collins.

Speaker
Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator, Photography, NGV

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