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Dorothea Lange

A Life Beyond Limits

Linda Gordon author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:11th Feb '11

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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.

"A richly human portrait of the eminent photographer whose luminous Depression-era images had the democratizing impact of a Steinbeck novel." "The material is fascinating, and [the] presentation sterling."

  • Winner of Bancroft Prize 2010
  • Winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2009
  • Winner of New York Times Notable Selection 2009

ISBN: 9780393339055

Dimensions: 236mm x 155mm x 38mm

Weight: 991g

560 pages