Dorothea Lange a life beyond limits Linda Gordon

By:

Gordon, Linda, 1940- [VerfasserIn]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: London New York W.W. Norton & Company 2010Description: xxiii, 536 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates Illustrationen 24 cmContent type:

Text
unbewegtes Bild

Media type:

ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen

Carrier type:

Band

ISBN:

9780393339055
039333905X

Other title:

Life beyond limits

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Biografie

DDC classification:

770.92

LOC classification:

TR140.L3

Other classification:

AP 94100
21.42

Summary: Introduction : "A camera is a tool for learning how to see ...".Summary: Part one. Hoboken and San Francisco, 1895-1931. Child of iron, wounded -- Apprentice to the city -- Becoming a photographer -- Maynard Dixon, Bohemian artist -- Working mother in Bohemia.Summary: Part two. Depression and renewal, 1932-1935. Leaving the children, leaving the studio -- A New Deal for artists -- Paul Schuster Taylor, maverick economist -- The romance of love, the romance of the cause -- Blending a family.Summary: Part three. Creating documentary photography, 1935-1939. Father Stryker and the beloved community -- On the road: California -- Migrant Mother -- On the road: the Dust Bowl -- On the road: the South -- An American Exodus -- Dorothea and Roy.Summary: Part four. Wartime, 1939-1945. Family stress -- Defiant war photography: the Japanese internment -- Unruly war photography: the Office of War Information and Defense Workers.Summary: Part five. Independent photographer, 1945-1965. Surviving in the cold -- Working for Life -- Diplomat's wife -- To a cabin -- Photographer of democracy.Summary: Gordon charts the life of Dorothea Lange, from her polio-ridden childhood, to marriage & motherhood, a career as a portrait photographer, & her work as the acclaimed chronicler of the Great Depression & World War II

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
single unit book	HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks	F (Affiliated)	F:TR140.L3 G67 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		2023-4591

Originally published: 2009

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 440-518) and index

Introduction : "A camera is a tool for learning how to see ...".

Part one. Hoboken and San Francisco, 1895-1931. Child of iron, wounded -- Apprentice to the city -- Becoming a photographer -- Maynard Dixon, Bohemian artist -- Working mother in Bohemia.

Part two. Depression and renewal, 1932-1935. Leaving the children, leaving the studio -- A New Deal for artists -- Paul Schuster Taylor, maverick economist -- The romance of love, the romance of the cause -- Blending a family.

Part three. Creating documentary photography, 1935-1939. Father Stryker and the beloved community -- On the road: California -- Migrant Mother -- On the road: the Dust Bowl -- On the road: the South -- An American Exodus -- Dorothea and Roy.

Part four. Wartime, 1939-1945. Family stress -- Defiant war photography: the Japanese internment -- Unruly war photography: the Office of War Information and Defense Workers.

Part five. Independent photographer, 1945-1965. Surviving in the cold -- Working for Life -- Diplomat's wife -- To a cabin -- Photographer of democracy.

Gordon charts the life of Dorothea Lange, from her polio-ridden childhood, to marriage & motherhood, a career as a portrait photographer, & her work as the acclaimed chronicler of the Great Depression & World War II

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