Caption: Photographer Dorothea Lange pictured in Texas, circa 1934.
UCR ARTS—On March 16, join UCR ARTS in Riverside for an afternoon screening of DOROTHEA LANGE: GRAB A HUNK OF LIGHTNING (2014). This free event includes a post-film Q&A with filmmaker Dyanna Taylor.
Synopsis: Explore, through her granddaughter’s eyes, the life story of Dorothea Lange, the photographer who captured the iconic image ‘Migrant Mother’. Never-seen-before photos, film footage, interviews, family memories, and journals reveal the artist who challenged America to know itself.
Lange’s enduring images document five turbulent decades of American history, including the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, World War II Japanese American Internment camps, and early environmentalism. Yet few know the story, struggles, and profound body of work of the woman behind the camera. Award winning cinematographer Dyanna Taylor, Lange’s granddaughter, directs and narrates this intimate documentary as it explores Lange’s life, probes the nature of her muses – two great men and the camera itself – and her uncompromising vision. Taylor, who learned to see the visual world at her grandmother’s feet, weaves Lange’s preparations for her career retrospective at New York’s MoMA into a universal story of a woman’s struggle to live a creative life.
Saturday, March 16, 2024 | 3 pm
3824 + 3834 Main Street
Riverside, CA 92501
Free admission! Reserve your free ticket here.
*A film admission ticket gives you access to the film screening and complimentary admission to all UCR ARTS exhibitions during your visit. Please note: most galleries close at 5 PM. For a list of current exhibitions, please click here.
This event is presented in partnership with California Humanities, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This film is supported by a California Documentary Project grant.
