dorothea-lange-american-masters-profile-to pr4emere on PS Aug 29

[Bill_1856]

FYI
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/070...-pbs-august-29

[Drew Wiley]

I wonder if this is a re-run of the previous PBS documentary on her, which was excellent and didn't spare any punches. Her life was complicated.

[Bill_1856]

I wonder if this is a re-run of the previous PBS documentary on her, which was excellent and didn't spare any punches. Her life was complicated.

Didn't see it. Hope it's good.

[Eskeyp]

Thanks for the link to the video of Dorothea Lange, looked very interesting

[Merg Ross]

Didn't see it. Hope it's good.

Bill, this might also interest you -- an excellent look at Dixon and Lange:



Sorry, broken link. Do a search for "Child of Giants" DVD

[Tin Can]

Thanks!

This means I have to watch TV Tonight. Gads, pigs are flying!

[Drew Wiley]

What I find so remarkable is how drastically Dixon changed his painting style during a particular split-up, when the blues hit him hard. While this work might not have
the collector appeal of his typical Western genre paintings, it sure had a lot more in it to take note of. The dude could really paint, in a way I never realized before.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Yup got it set to record on the PVR. We get it on Sunday evening...

[Drew Wiley]

I might order a disc copy one of these days. Just had lunch with an ole friend - my first print dealer - who intends to watch it. He know the local lore better than I do, even some of the family themselves. I won't elaborate, but it turns out one particular famous photo family around here is related to another, through marriage.
Never heard that on the separate documentaries. Coincidentally saw the outcome - the progeny - just twenty minutes ago. I've known him too for years, and never
knew his own DNA was hybridized from both silver and platinum. I long knew about the platinum ancestry.

[Bill_1856]

I just watched it, and it IS superb.
I haven't read the Metzger biography for many years, and was happily surprised by some of the content of the video. (There was a problem with the sound from our PBS station, and my "big-screen" TV was blown out by lightening last week, so had to watch it on a tiny little substitute.)