Dorothea Lange’s legacy lives on through a fellowship at UC Berkeley
On Feb. 22 the Cal J-School presents, “Photographer Dorothea Lange and the Berkeley Connection: 40 Years of Lange Fellowship Winners.”
A photo from the project “Defy Expectations” by Clara Mokri, 2019 Dorothea Lange Fellowship winner and current student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Photo: Clara Mokri
If the past is a foreign country, Dorothea Lange’s images work as a visual time machine, providing a portal back to the dusty byways, rural backroads and prison camps that many would prefer to forget. A Berkeley resident for much of her life, Lange continues to serve as a beacon for documentary photographers, not least at UC Berkeley ever since Cal economics professor Paul Taylor established a fellowship to honor his late wife some two decades after her death in 1965.