Production Team
Production Team
Dyanna Taylor – Director
Meg Partridge – Producer
Roberta Grossman – Senior Producer
Lisa Thomas – Executive Producer
Smokey Forester – Head of Production
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Children raised by artists have an inside view of the creative life and the producers of this film, Dyanna Taylor, Dorothea Lange’s granddaughter, and Meg Partridge, Imogen Cunningham’s granddaughter and Lange's goddaughter, are no exception. As young participants in Lange’s life, they were, upon occasion, not only her subjects, the raw material for the photographers' palette, but also subject to her powerful will. Lange's passion to share her vision with the next generation made a lasting impression on Dyanna Taylor, whose candid memories will elucidate the contradictory forces that focused Lange’s life.
Dyanna Taylor
Dyanna Taylor, a director and veteran cinematographer, brings a uniquely personal angle to this film; she is the granddaughter of Dorothea Lange. Dyanna directed Vanished, an evocative film on the life, work, and disappearance of the young American author Everett Ruess, and co-produced and directed Annapurna: A Woman’s Place for ABC.
Taylor’s cinematographic work is long and distinguished: She won the Peabody Award for the film Winter Dreams, a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald and won the MUSE award from NYWIFT recognizing her cinematography. Her other credits include 500 Nations, Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action, the Academy Award winning Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, and Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World, as well as dramatic and non-fiction films shot both nationally and internationally. She will not only bring professional skills to the project, but a personal voice with unparalleled access to the research, personal archives, and subjects in the film.
Meg Partridge
Meg Partridge is a producer and director of documentary films. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her film Portrait of Imogen, on her grandmother, the photographer Imogen Cunningham. As a member of Lange’s extended family, she also grew up in the milieu of the Taylor/Lange/Dixon families, and knows both the personal side as well as professional work of Dorothea Lange.