![]() war correspondent to contemporary creatives, which includes Carrie Mae Weems and her iconic fictional Kitchen Table Series, where she turned the camera on herself. The DAM exhibit is divided into six parts, spanning from “modernist innovators” such as documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White who went on to be the first woman to serve as a U.S. It was thanks to groups such as The Photo League and Group f/64 - which welcomed women during eras where opportunities in the art world were hard to come by - that some of the world’s most iconic images exist. “Women embraced the medium early on, in part because photography had fewer barriers for female participation, compared with more traditional art forms such as painting and sculpture,” said Christoph Heinrich, the Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the Denver Art Museum. ![]() On display this summer at the Denver Art Museum in “Modern Women/Modern Vision,” Lange’s photo is remarkably more powerful in person, hanging among the work of other impactful women photographers who also followed their intuition to capture images vital to journalism, history and photography as an artform. The image - a black and white close-up of a gaunt-looking woman holding a sleeping baby flanked by two more small children - “exists in more formats, prints, and places than (arguably) any other photograph in the world,” Museum of Modern Art curator Sarah Hermanson Meister wrote in a 2018 book about the 20th century photographer. Perhaps the most iconic photograph of the Great Depression wouldn’t have been produced if it weren’t for a gut instinct that Dorothea Lange turn back to a pea-pickers camp in Nipomo, California in 1936. Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Sentinel and was shared via AP StoryShare.
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