Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
A biography of photographer Dorothea Lange that follows her life, work, and vision as she chronicled American hardship and resilience.
Work Information
A biography of photographer Dorothea Lange that follows her life, work, and vision as she chronicled American hardship and resilience.
A biography of photographer Dorothea Lange that follows her life, work, and vision as she chronicled American hardship and resilience.
Book Information
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Published
- 2009-10-19
- Pages
- 536 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 4.06 x 24.38 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780393057300
- ISBN-10
- 0393057305
- Category
- 洋書/Arts & Photography/Individual Artists
We all know Dorothea Lange’s iconic photos—the “Migrant Mother” holding her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlines—but few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping account, renowned historian Linda Gordon charts Lange’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 Lange’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 Lange’s growing radicalization as she embraced the democratic power of the camera, and she examines Lange’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.
Winner of two Bancroft Prizes for best book in American history, Linda Gordon is the author of The Second Coming of the KKK and a biography of photographer Dorothea Lange . She lives in New York and Madison, Wisconsin.
Reviews
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Great business.
Wonderful read.
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Documentary book
Too heavy book to read. More like documentary book than entertaining life story.
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Excellent
This is the very best book on Dorthea's life that I have seen to date. As an old photographer I have always been interested in her work so I enjoyed this book a whole lot.
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Did I mention complete?
This is the complete - and I do mean very complete biography of Dorothea Lange. It not only extensively maps her life and achievements from beginning to end it also places them inside the history of Americas social evolution through much of the 20th century. It is well written with a decent collection of her photographs in service to society.
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Très beau livre
Super livre dommage qu'il soit arrivé abîmé