DCU talk on photographer Dorothea Lange
3 May 2005

Photograph entitled 'Migrant Mother' taken during the Great Depression in the USA

Dorothea Lange, one of the world's most famous photographers, will be the subject of an illustrated talk by her son in DCU. The presentation by Daniel Dixon, her son, will focus on Lange's work in Ireland in the 1950s and will take place in the Lounge upstairs in the 1838 Club at 2.30pm, on Wednesday 4 May. Coffee will be served.

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) is most strongly associated with her iconic photographs of the Great Depression in the USA - see attached - but in 1954 she came to Ireland and took 2,400 photographs. During that trip she spent a few days in Dublin, and then a month on farms, at fairs and hurling matches, in churches, villages and rural homes of Co. Clare. She was accompanied by her journalist son Daniel Dixon, and this will be his first trip to Ireland in the fifty years since then.

Part of the archive of Lange's Irish photographs was published in the book, Dorothea Lange's Ireland, 1996, by Daniel Dixon and Gerry Mullins, who lectures in the DCU School of Communications. Further information from gerry.mullins@dcu.ie