Dorothea Lange

The Hunger Games

2012-03-16 00:00:00

The first novel in Suzanne Collins' bestselling trilogy is a futuristic fight-to-the-death thriller driven by pure survival instinct, but the creative equivalent of that go-for-broke impulse is absent from director Gary Ross' "The Hunger Games."...

'More American Photographs' offers a glimpse of America's recession

2012-03-10 16:32:46

Twain House Chronicles Author's Racial Consciousness

2012-02-01 09:01:00

The Unblinking Stare of Walker Evans at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme

2011-10-14 11:55:00

The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans Through Jan. 29, 2012, Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St., Old Lyme, (860) 434-5542 � "Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." So advised Walker Evans (1901-1975), who knew...

NEH gives $40 million in grants; $3.2 million to California

2011-08-02 21:33:16

Let's talk Depression, even if the politicians won't

2011-09-13 16:35:33

Pilot Picks for Friday

2011-04-28 22:30:00

PressPausePlay: This global journey captures how digital technology has transformed the concept of art and culture, democratizing tools that were once in the hands of only a select few. Playing at 4:15 p.m. at the Regency Lido Theatre. This is Your...

El músico Moby muestra su desconocida faceta de fotógrafo en Nueva York

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Oakland Museum reflects city's evolution

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Representative of the city's transformation is the Oakland Museum of California, near Lake Merritt, which reopened in May after a $62-million renovation. The architecture and landscaping remain true to its original 1969 Midcentury Modern design: The...

Trees branch out at the Getty

2011-02-19 16:32:51

Review: 'Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits' by Linda Gordon

2010-09-07 12:38:33

"Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits" By Linda Gordon 536 pp., W. W. Norton & Company, $35 A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those who make pictures don't always speak or write very openly about their work or themselves. And so writing about...

California Hall of Fame names Wayne Thiebaud

2010-12-16 16:33:17

Dorothea Lange was an American photojournalist widely famous for documenting the affects of the Great Depression. Her work brought the Depression's ravages on blue collar families to the doorsteps of the middle and upper-classes.

2010-02-12 13:32:15

). If you can't score the nearly impossible cabin reservations, consider camping midweek. Bring your tide chart and walk north to Stinson Beach for breakfast or dinner at the Parkside Cafe. Mt. Tamalpais State Park, 801 Panoramic Highway, Mill Valley; (415) 388-2070, www.parks.ca.gov.

2009-02-11 19:13:11