Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning

00:00:51 When I said I am trying to get lost again,

00:06:11 Her father had left the family.

00:09:57 she convinced a backer

00:14:01 "My marriage with Mr. Dixon

00:18:34 the envy of many San Francisco artists,

00:22:41 waddling down the furrows, cutting that lettuce.

00:26:59 He later recalled,

00:32:08 And we will see.

00:36:07 in the personnel contracts... "and other duties as assigned"?

00:40:59 And, in December of 1935,

00:46:03 that you could admire her photographs for themselves.

00:51:05 "On this plantation, 22 tractors

00:55:09 in a row, presenting themselves to you as powerful people

00:59:33 excitement in getting it down quickly while it still...

01:04:09 in efforts to gain funding for the housing he felt

01:08:31 LANGE: Isn't that lovely to look at?

01:13:12 "Brother is picking 75-cent cotton, they starved,"

01:17:19 was a set of photographs to illustrate

01:22:36 She was repeatedly asked to show her credentials.

01:26:56 And she would express mock exasperation with him,

01:32:17 The reservoir site

01:36:56 but she didn't come here with a shooting schedule.

01:43:12 She described as making sentences out of photographs,

01:48:55 from the rocks above the sea.