MoCP – Film Screening and Conversation
Film Screening, Conversation and Book Signing – Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Film Screening, Conversation and Book Signing – Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Dyanna Taylor, the granddaughter of Dorothea Lange and deeply influenced by her, will discuss Lange’s work on the New Deal as well as her work documenting the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Taylor, who has been a director of photography and cinematographer for 30 years, is a five-time Emmy award winner and the 1998 recipient of the MUSE award for Outstanding Vision and Achievement in Cinematography from New York Women in Film and Television. She was the director of photography for the recent Blessed Is the Match, in distribution with First Run Features; Hava Nagila: The Movie; HBO’s The Alzheimer Project; and HBO’s 2012 seriesWeight of the Nation. Currently, she is in production on her filmDorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning for a Labor Day 2014 release.
Her talk will include never-before-seen clips from her film of Lange preparing for her one-woman photographic exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1966.
Radio interview on WAMC Northeast Public Radio with Elizabeth Partridge, author of companion book, Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of…
Radio interview on Here & Now, Boston’s NPR news station (90.9 WBUR) with Elizabeth Partridge, author of the companion book,…
Conversation between Jeff Schectman of Specific Gravity and Elizabeth Partridge, author of companion book, Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning.
Voice of America radio interview with Elizabeth Partridge, author of the companion book, Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning.
Radio interview with Elizabeth Partridge, author of companion book, Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, on Southern California Public…
In an interview by alumna Linda Washington, ’12 WCYA, author Elizabeth Partridge describes the inspiration for writing her nonfiction book…
Check out more images from Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning here at parade.com!
CNN photo blog showcased Lange’s work and highlighted both the book and film. Check it out here.