Dorothea Lange's American Stories on View in Turin

Camera in Turin hosts 'Dorothea Lange. Racconti di vita e di lavoro', a major exhibition of 200 photographs focusing on two of Lange's government-commissioned projects. The first and larger section documents the impact of the Great Depression on rural America, part of the Farm Security Administration project (active until 1943). Lange's empathetic approach included using waist-level viewfinders to avoid pointing the lens directly at subjects. The show opens with images of fellow FSA photographers Walker Evans and Ben Shahn, then moves to Lange's depictions of urban poor and the great migration. Iconic works include two men walking beside a billboard reading 'Next time try the train' and the famous 'Migrant Mother' portrait of a 32-year-old woman in a shack. The second section, installed in the corridor, covers Lange's documentation of the internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor in late 1941. Curated by Walter Guadagnini and Monica Poggi, the exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Dario Cimorelli Editore.