Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Courtesy Library of Congress
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Thursday Oct 23, 2008 (6pm)
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Did someone say "Great Depression"? During the current financial crisis, we've heard myriad references to this period, so perhaps it is fitting that the Museum of Contemporary Photography has assembled a selection of Dorothea Lange's Depression-era documentary photographs. In this exhibition talk, Lange's son, Daniel Dixon, and his wife, Dixie, discuss the photographer's life and work. Lange's best-known images, commissioned by the Farm Security Administration, record impoverished life in rural America between 1935 and 1939. The Dixons also touch on Three Mormon Towns, a collaboration on which Lange and son Daniel worked with Ansel Adams.
