The photography of Dorothea Lange to be seen in Milan – Milan

Milan – De Great Photography keert terug naar de kloosters van Sant’Estorgio: na de tentoonstellingen gewijd aan Robert Capa, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Mario de Biasi, Maurizio Galimberti – net tot het beperken van US tot de bekendste – The Diocesan Museum Carlo Martini Celebrates 130 Years van de geboorte van een van de meest significante Reporters of the Twentie century. Let’s talk about the American Dorothea Lange (Hoboken, New Jersey, 1895 – San Francisco, 1965), author of 140 shots that are discovered in a project by Walter Guadagnini and Monica Poggi. Brave photojournalist and portrait theater of considerable sensitivity, from 15 May to 19 October 2025, will show long how current his work is, that themes such as migration, climatic crisis, has touched discrimination.

“Social observer by choice and artist for instinct”, as John Szarkowski wrote about her, the American photographer went to history for an image symbol of the twentieth century, Migranttaken in 1936 such as those of the detention camps that arose in the United States in 1941, immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, to limit the population of Japanese origin. Lange collaborated with other authors – including the great landscape player Ansel Adams – on behalf of the US government, despite being publicly the different opinion for this measure. His shots document the absurdity of a racial and discriminatory law and how this has distorted the lives of thousands of well -inspired people in society, forcing them to leave their houses and activities. Excellent portrait writer has long succeeded in restoring the emotional experience of the topics of his photos, which underlines how political choices and environmental conditions influence the lives of individuals.

Absolute peak in the work of the photographer is the period between the 1930s and 40s, when it documents some decisive events in the history of the United States. In this respect, the report was not drawn up during the great drought that the country met between 1931 and 1931, when the long -term lack of rain and the continuous sandstorms of agriculture put on their knees, forcing thousands of people to migrate.

In recent years, a long part of the group of photographers who, through the Farm Security Administration (the government agency is responsible for promoting New Deal policy) to document the exodus of agricultural workers in search of a job in the large plantations of Central Valley. In 1935 the reporter, together with Paul S. Taylor, an agricultural economist who will get married a few years later, left for a long journey on the roads that are taken by entire families in miserable living conditions. From the peas of California to the cotton plantations of the South, where racial segregation leads to even more humiliating forms of exploitation, long will make thousands of recordings, collect stories, then reported in the detailed captions with the images.

“The importance of Dorothea Lange – observe the curators Walter Guadagnini and Monica Poggi – is central to the history of photography, also because of the ability to tell the human tragedy through a refined aesthetic sense, which nowadays able to consider the work, both from the eye of the portrait of individuals and and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his and his vulner.”.