Subject: Fwd: [Cm116] Dorothea Lange's son at DCU
From: Aisling O' Rourke <[email-masked]>
To: Kate Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:14:05 +0100

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Date: Apr 25, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: [Cm116] Dorothea Lange's son at DCU
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Kate can you forward this on to the fotosoc list please
Thanks a mill

Folks,

If you are interested in photography and in particular
photojournalism, please come along to a talk given by the son of
photographer
Dorothea Lange next Wednesday (May 4th) at 2.30pm, upstairs at the 1838
Club, DCU. Admission is free.

Gerry Mullins.

Visit of Dorothea Lange?s son to Ireland, May 4-12, 2005

Daniel Dixon, son of one of the world?s most famous photographers Dorothea
Lange (1895-1965), will give four audio-visual presentations on his mother
and her work in Ireland in May.

Dorothea Lange is one of the most influential photographers to this day,
and is crediting with starting the genre of photojournalism. She is most
associated with her iconic photographs of the Great Depression in the USA,
but in 1954 she spent a month in Ireland and took 2,400 photographs. Part
of that archive was published in the book, Dorothea Lange?s Ireland, which
was a bestseller in 1996. It was also the basis for the documentary film
Photos to Send, which won Best Documentary awards in Galway and nine other
film festivals around the world.

During that trip she spent a few days in Dublin, and a month in Co. Clare,
on the farms, and at the fairs, hurling matches, churches, villages and
towns. She was accompanied by her journalist son, Daniel Dixon, who wrote
the essay to go with her Irish photos in Life magazine in March 1955.

This year Daniel Dixon makes his first return to Ireland since 1954. He
has travelled throughout the US delivering presentations about his mother's
work, and he will deliver four such presentations in Ireland on:

May 4 2.30: Upstairs in the 1838 Club, Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin
9;
May 5, 7pm: National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2;
May 10, 3pm: the Dept of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway;
May 12, 7.30pm: County Library in Ennis, Co. Clare, where many of the people
who were photographed by Lange are expected to be there.

Admission to all events is free.

Additional info
Daniel Dixon also worked with the famous photographers Ansel Adams, Imogen
Cunningham and Roi Partridge. His father was Maynard Dixon, a famous painter
of the American West. His daughter Leslie Dixon is the Hollywood screenwriter
who wrote Mrs. Doubtfire (starring Robin Williams), and rewrote The Thomas
Crown Affair (starring Pierce Brosnan).

Further information from Gerry Mullins, who wrote Dorothea Lange?s Ireland
and co-produced Photos to Send, and is former editor of Backpacker and Abroad
magazines: [email-masked] Tel. 086-3080781. Dorothea Lange photos
available for publication to promote these events, available upon request.

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