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An Introduction to Dorothea Lange’s Personal Archive

Posted by Cheyenne Matthe... on24Jul

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

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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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Aerial photo of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
July 15, 2020

Object of the Week: San Joaquin Delta by Bob Walker

Gallery Guide Orion Camero finds connections to nature, art, and activism in a photograph by nature photographer Bob Walker.
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