作品情報

写真家ドロシア・ラングの生涯と仕事を通じて、記録写真が捉えた社会の現実と表現の力を検証する伝記。

写真家ドロシア・ラングの生涯と仕事を通じて、記録写真が捉えた社会の現実と表現の力を検証する伝記。芸術と歴史の交差を見せる研究。

書籍情報

出版社

W W Norton & Co Inc

発売日

2009-10-19

ページ数

536ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

16.51 x 4.06 x 24.38 cm

ISBN-13

9780393057300

ISBN-10

0393057305

カテゴリ

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.

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