Curiously, though, the strength of Lange’s photographs at MoMA undercuts the exhibition’s concept. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS THE FIRST MAJOR DOROTHEA LANGE SOLO EXHIBITION AT MoMA IN 50 YEARS Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures February 9–May 9, 2020 Floor Two, The Paul J. Sachs Galleries #DorotheaLange NEW YORK, February 6, 2020—The Museum of Modern Art presents Dorothea Lange: February 9 – May 9, 2020. And an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art MoMA has long been dedicated to Lange, who died in 1965. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Museum of Modern Art had planned to present “Dorothea Lange Words & Pictures” through May 9, 2020, which the museum said “was the first major solo exhibition at the museum of the photographer’s incisive work in over 50 years” and included approximately 100 photographs drawn entirely from the MoMA’s collection. Visit Events For Members Become a Member Ways to Give For Educators Press Room Shop. A committed social observer, Dorthea Lange paid sharp attention to the human condition, conveying stories of everyday life through her photographs and the voices they drew in. While a picture is worth a thousand words, words can also affect the meaning and impact of pictures. As her business diminished with the Depression, she began photographing the world around her, including labor strikes and protests. A committed social observer, Dorthea Lange paid sharp attention to the human condition, conveying stories of everyday life through her photographs and the voices they drew in. MoMA has long been dedicated to Lange, who died in 1965. In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. Dorothea Lange took great care in combining photographs with words to communicate the stories of everyday life.” Presenting Lange’s work in its diverse contexts—photobooks, Depression-era government reports, newspapers, magazines, poems—along with the voices of contemporary artists, writers, and thinkers, the exhibition offers a more nuanced understanding of Lange’s vocation, and new means for considering words and pictures today. Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Duplicate Prints from the 1966 Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, running from September 18 through November 2. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to archives@moma.org . The images on this site may be used only for non-commercial editorial press purposes in conjunction with MoMA's current exhibitions, programs, building, and news announcements, as well as hightlights from MoMA's collection and MoMA PS1 exhibitions. Dorothea Lange: Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Catalogue, 1966 [Dorothea Lange, George P. Elliott] on Amazon.com. Even though so many of Lange’s subjects were downtrodden, struggling, helpless, alienated, dislocated, and even defeated, there is something powerfully uplifting, morally honest, and fundamentally empathetic about the way Lange chose to see them. Viewers take in the images of documentary photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) at an exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, March 7, 2020. Poignant black and white pictures that defined the deprivation and devastation of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, including the indelible Migrant Mother, on view at new Dorothea Lange exhibition Dorothea Lange: Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Catalogue, 1966 Dorothea Lange was a successful portrait photographer in San Francisco when the stock market crashed in 1929. That project has concluded, and works are now being identified by MoMA staff. The Museum of Modern Art announces Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, the first major solo exhibition at the Museum of the photographer’s incisive work in over 50 years.