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The Irish Countryman

Dorothea Lange’s Ireland

All photos © The Dorothea Lange Collection, The Oakland Museum of California, The City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.

March/April 1996

April 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment

When photographer Dorothea Lange, best known for her haunting series of images from the Depression era, chose Ireland as her subject in the 1950s, she was not very happy with the way the finished product was presented in Life magazine. She was, however, deeply pleased with the way her photographic series portrayed the people and the land of Ireland.  Lange had put pressure on … [Read more...] about Dorothea Lange’s Ireland

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