Dorothea Lange a life beyond limits Linda Gordon
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London New York W.W. Norton & Company 2010Description: xxiii, 536 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates Illustrationen 24 cmContent type:- Text
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- 9780393339055
- 039333905X
- Life beyond limits
- Lange, Dorothea
- Photographers -- United States -- Biography
- Women photographers -- United States -- Biography
- Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Lange, Dorothea
- Women photographers
- Documentary photography
- Manners and customs
- Photographers
- United States
- Illustrated works
- Biography
- History
- Pictorial works
- Illustrated works
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- Class of Spring 2019
- Marcus Bierich Distinguished Visitor
- Distinguished Visitor
- Lange, Dorothea 1895-1965
- 770.92
- TR140.L3
- AP 94100
- 21.42
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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