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...oppressiveness. It is less poverty than ultimate bleakness that is Bonnie and Clyde's landscape. Times are hard, but it is the place rather than the time which shapes the society Penn portrays. His view of the depression is closer to that of Walker Evans than Dorothea Lange, and he has peopled his film with faces of unspectacular emptiness. Everyone is dispossessed: those who hold jobs are as desperate and restless as those who roam the territory in broken-down trucks. The desolation of the environment shapes the lethargy and fustration of its population...
...aspect of one person. For that reason, the subject's name often is not used as the title of the picture. The viewer must put emotion into Marian Palfri's flashbulb picture of the sphinx-faced Negro woman, "Wife of a Victim of a Mob Lynching." A photograph by Dorothea Lange changes from a picture of a smiling grandmother to a beaming representation of boundless green nostalgia: "God Bless Nora Kennally, Country Clare, Ireland...
This generation--call it mod, pop, turned-on, hip, or any of the other catch phrases of this label-happy era--asserted itself by establishing a new standard of moral behavior. The process obviously involved redefinition: in the '30's, photographer meant Stieglitz, Steichen, Dorothea Lange; now photographer means cool. But Michaelangelo Antonioni has other ideas...
Researchers who worked on the story (Dorothea Bourne, Raissa Silverman and Linda Young) moved through the New York City pattern -with Raissa's evening reflecting the spirit that animated New Yorkers during the blackout. She had invited four friends to dinner at her tenth-floor apartment. When darkness hit, she phoned, advising them not to come, and invited the neighbors, who were drinking coffee in the hallway by candlelight, to come to dinner...
...Died. Dorothea Lange, 70, noted photographer of the hopeless poor, whose stark portraits of Depression breadlines and "Okie" refugees helped shock the public into supporting Government relief projects, and led Edward Steichen to call her "without doubt our greatest documentary photographer"; of cancer; in San Francisco...