Dorothea Lange: Film Screening and Conversation
Schedule
Sat Mar 21 2026 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
625 Williams St, New London, CT, United States, Connecticut 06320 | New London, CT
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Join us for an afternoon screening of Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. Explore the life story of Dorothea Lange, the photographer who captured the iconic image “Migrant Mother,” through the lens of her granddaughter Dyanna Taylor. Following the screening, Taylor will “Zoom” into the Museum’s auditorium for a continued conversation with film attendees.Date: Saturday, March 21
Time: 1 – 4 pm (film is about two hours long, with the conversation to follow)
Cost: Members $5 / Non-members $10
Popcorn and drinks will be provided
RSVP to [email protected] or call 860.443.2545 ext. 2129
Grab a Hunk of Lightning features never-before-seen photos, film footage, interviews, family memories, and journals that reveal the artist who challenged America to know itself.
Lange’s enduring images document five turbulent decades of American history, including the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, World War II Japanese American Internment camps, and early environmentalism. Yet few know the story, struggles, and profound body of work of the woman behind the camera. Award winning cinematographer Dyanna Taylor, Lange’s granddaughter, directs and narrates this intimate documentary as it explores Lange’s life, probes the nature of her muses—two great men and the camera itself—and her uncompromising vision. Taylor, who learned to see the visual world at her grandmother’s feet, weaves Lange’s preparations for her career retrospective at New York’s MoMA into a universal story of a woman’s struggle to live a creative life.
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