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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
Full title: | Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits |
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ISBN: | 9780393339055 |
ISBN 10: | 039333905X |
Authors: | Gordon, Linda |
Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
Edition: | Illustrated |
Num. pages: | 560 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2010 |
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Synopsis
Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers.
We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos-the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl-but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than one hundred images-many of them previously unseen and some formerly suppressed-Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.