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Explore Five Rare Dorothea Lange Photos From Her Studio Portrait Series

Posted by Cheyenne Matthe... on07Aug

Discover Lange’s lesser-known photographs and more on OMCA’s new Dorothea Lange Digital Archive, launching August 10.

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Black and white image of a grown man's hands and a small child's hands
August 7, 2020

Explore Five Rare Dorothea Lange Photos From Her Studio Portrait Series

Discover Lange’s lesser-known photographs and more on OMCA’s new Dorothea Lange Digital Archive, launching August 10.
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Paul S. Taylor, Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Plains, circa 1935. © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
July 31, 2020

How OMCA is making Dorothea Lange’s archive available for all

Want to know how OMCA digitizes Dorothea Lange’s work? Photographic Collection Cataloger Ellis Martin takes us behind the scenes.
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Black and white image of a mother with her hand to her face and two children embracing her
July 24, 2020

An Introduction to Dorothea Lange’s Personal Archive

OMCA Curator Drew Johnson talks about the power of Dorothea Lange’s photography and how her archive came to OMCA.
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