Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: Dorothea Langeâ€™s photographs define how we remember the Depression generation; now an evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.
We all know Dorothea Langeâ€™s iconic photosâ€•the â€œMigrant Motherâ€ holding her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlinesâ€•but few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping account, renowned historian Linda Gordon charts Langeâ€™s journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, to San Francisco portrait photographer, to chronicler of the Great Depression and World War II. Gordon uses Langeâ€™s life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, re-creating the bohemian world of San Francisco, the Dust Bowl, and the Japanese American internment camps. She explores Langeâ€™s growing radicalization as she embraced the democratic power of the camera, and she examines Langeâ€™s entire body of work, reproducing more than one hundred images, many of them previously unseen and some of them formerly suppressed. Lange reminds us that beauty can be found in unlikely places, and that to respond to injustice, we must first simply learn how to see it. 128 photos
Country USA
Brand W.W. Norton & Co
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2009-10-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393057300

Country	USA
Brand	W.W. Norton & Co
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2009-10-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393057300

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

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