Dorothea Lange arrives in Milan – Milan

Milan – With the courage of the reporter and the sensitivity of the portrayer, Dorothea Lange has succeeded in bringing the collective pain of many American communities to the attention of the world and to give ideas about reflection on themes such as climatological crisis, poverty, migration, discrimination, discrimination telling the dramatic topicism of the united states.
From 13 May to 19 October, 135 years after the birth of the American photographer, the Diocesan Museum Carlo Maria Martini tells the peak of his career between the 1930s and 1940s through a hundred shots.
Made in collaboration with the Camera – Italian Center for Turin, and the treatment of Walter Guadagnini and Monica Poggi, the exhibition deals with countless problems, from the state of agricultural workers to slavery, to the segregation of the Japanese population after the attack of Pearl Harbor, who strikes the opponents of a country in a country.
It starts from the 1930s and 40s of the twentieth century, when the long witness of some of the epochal events that would have changed the economic and social structure of the United States, especially the collapse of Wall Street, when it is forced to leave the profession of portrait of the current affairs. There is the journey that was taken in 1935 with the economist and future husband Paul S. Taylor, to tell the dramatic living conditions in which the workers in the agricultural sector of the country, affected from 1931 to 1939, and the phenomenon of Dust Bowl, the Zandstormen also told by John’s novel Furore (1939).

Dorothea Lange, a great sign with the word “I am an American” posted on the showcase of a store under the [401-403 Eighth] and Franklin Street on December 8, the next day Pearl Harbor

The journeys of Lange are becoming increasingly intensive to tell the places and faces of poverty during compliance with the Farm Security Administration government program, born with the aim of promoting New Deal policy.
From the pea plantations of California to those of cotton of the southern states, the photographer takes thousands of photos, collects stories and stories reported in the detailed captions associated with the works. It also arises in this context MigrantAn image that is intended to become iconic, and who makes a young desperate mother immortal who lives together with the seven children in a camp of curtains and abandoned cars.
Another core of Schoten dates from the years, which began for the United States in 1941 with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, is devoted to the American population of Japanese descent interned by the US government in the US government after the war entrance. Also this time long, who works on behalf of the government, despite the fact that she and her husband have publicly pronounced her abnormal opinions, documents through her photos the absurdity of a racial and discriminatory law that has distorted the lives of thousands of people by force them to leave their homes.

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother. Poor pea collectors in California. Mother of seven children. Age: thirty -Two – Nipomo, California. 1936 – The New York Public Library | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington

The visitor is given the opportunity to cross complex and dramatic contexts, to listen to the personal experiences and the emotional experience of every person on the way, while it strongly comes to the fore how political choices and environmental conditions can influence the lives of individuals and drastically change their existence.