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 />

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

Sun 21 Nov 21, 2pm

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-->
Past program

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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 and Marjory Collins.

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Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator, Photography, NGV
Talks Photography Virtual