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Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange (CA)

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Date and Time

Friday, October 16, 2026, 5:30 PM until 7:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-08:00)

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UCB Graduate School of Journalism
121 Northgate Hall, Room #5860
Berkeley, CA  94720
USA
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Dorothea Lange, one of the nation's greatest documentary photographers, worked for the New Deal’s Resettlement Administration during the Great Depression. She drove the backroads of California with a camera and notebook documenting the stories of those displaced by poverty, dust and bigotry. Lange had little interest in classifying her photographs as art: she made them to affect social change. Shortly before her death in 1965, Lange spoke at UC Berkeley. “Someone showed me photos of migrant farmworkers they had just taken,” she said. “They look just like what I made in the ‘30s.” 

Lange's archive has been reborn for the stage as "Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange,” a multi-media production based on her journals and photographs.

UCB Graduate School of Journalism
Friday, October 16, 2026, 5:30–7:00pm
Playwright Tess Taylor and photographer Ken Light discuss Lange’s life and archive.
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LOCATION: 121 Northgate Hall, Room #5860, Berkeley, CA
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