Executive producer David Fincher is now attached to a big screen biopic focusing on Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange. Screenplay is by Angela Workman ("Brontë"), for director Leslie Dektor.
Lange was an influential American photographer/photojournalist, noted for her work for the "Farm Security Administration". Her photographs humanized the consequences of the 'Great Depression' while influencing the development of documentary photography.
Stricken with polio as a child, Lange was educated in photography in New York City, then informally apprenticed to New York photography studios. In 1918, she moved to San Francisco, opening a portrait studio and in 1920, married western painter Maynard Dixon.
With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange focused her camera lens on unemployed and homeless people, capturing the attention of local photographers and leading to her employment with the federal Fsa.
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Lange was an influential American photographer/photojournalist, noted for her work for the "Farm Security Administration". Her photographs humanized the consequences of the 'Great Depression' while influencing the development of documentary photography.
Stricken with polio as a child, Lange was educated in photography in New York City, then informally apprenticed to New York photography studios. In 1918, she moved to San Francisco, opening a portrait studio and in 1920, married western painter Maynard Dixon.
With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange focused her camera lens on unemployed and homeless people, capturing the attention of local photographers and leading to her employment with the federal Fsa.
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- 8/1/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
David Fincher will lend his support as producer to a biopic charting the life of Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange. Fincher is currently in post-production on his version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but he will exec produce the project, while David B. Ginsberg (Get Low) produces. Angela Workman (the writer behind the upcoming Brontë) is currently scribbling away at the script, with documentary maker Leslie Dektor set to direct. Lange was born in New Jersey in 1895, and went on to become one of the most prominent...
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- 7/31/2011
- by Matt Maytum
- TotalFilm
With David Fincher‘s high-profile remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo headed to theaters this holiday season, the question of his directorial future remains an open-ended one. There’s certainly no shortage of rumors — a big-budget, Angelina Jolie-starring chronicle of the life of Cleopatra, an adaptation of Jason Starr‘s crime novel Panic Attack, and Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which Fincher is actually officially signed on to direct. Yet even if his future in the director’s chair is an uncertain one, it appears as if the Oscar-nominated filmmaker has found a project of interest in an untitled biopic of documentary photographer Dorothea Lange. [Variety]
In unknown Leslie Dektor, the project already has a director. Her newcomer status, though, should make way for a significant contribution by Fincher as the film’s executive producer. Angela Workman (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan) is the talent behind...
In unknown Leslie Dektor, the project already has a director. Her newcomer status, though, should make way for a significant contribution by Fincher as the film’s executive producer. Angela Workman (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan) is the talent behind...
- 7/30/2011
- by Danny King
- The Film Stage
David Fincher is already at work telling the story of one of the most famous fictional female badasses, preparing to unleash The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on us this Christmas. But as an executive producer, at least, he's about to turn his attention to a real-life woman who might have been even more heroic. Variety reports that Fincher will executive produce a biopic of Dorothea Lange, the Depression-era photographer who captured iconic images like the one you see above, pretty much defining the way we remember the Dust Bowl and the terrible poverty of the 1930s. Angela Workman has been designed to develop the script for the indie, which Leslie Dektor and David B. Ginsberg are also producing. Lange lived in Berkeley in the 1930s, and was hired by the Resettlement Administration to photograph the many migrant workers who had moved to California in search of work-- the kind...
- 7/29/2011
- cinemablend.com
David Fincher is set to executive produce a biopic about famed photographer Dorothea Lange says Variety.
Despite contracting polio at age seven and being left with a permanent limp, Lange went on to become an acclaimed American photojournalist best known for her work in the 30's. Her poignant images humanised the tragic consequences of the Great Depression.
Her work had a major influence on documentary photography and inspired John Steinbeck to pen the seminal American novel "The Grapes of Wrath".
Angela Workman ("The Zookeeper's Wife") is developing the script, Leslie Dektor will direct and David B. Ginsberg will produce.
Despite contracting polio at age seven and being left with a permanent limp, Lange went on to become an acclaimed American photojournalist best known for her work in the 30's. Her poignant images humanised the tragic consequences of the Great Depression.
Her work had a major influence on documentary photography and inspired John Steinbeck to pen the seminal American novel "The Grapes of Wrath".
Angela Workman ("The Zookeeper's Wife") is developing the script, Leslie Dektor will direct and David B. Ginsberg will produce.
- 7/29/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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