Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BT1H18I |
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| Number of Pages | : | 425 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"FABULOUS!" according to From the Coast of Maine. While I have not completely finished this book, I couldn't wait to write a review. Linda Gordon has done a masterful job of merging history, biography and art in a most enjoyable book. I can't put it down! Admittedly, I've always admired Dorothea Lange's photographs, but I had only an inkling as to how complicated her life was, and how entwined it was with San Francisco's Bohemian. Amazon Customer said A Must Read Book!. This book is absolutely fascinating and filled with a plethora of information that I didn't know. One would think that the biography of a photographer could be interesting, but this book greatly exceeds "interesting". It is way more than a biography. It is a book of the times and a book that is nearly impossible to put down. One of those books where you let the phone go to voice m. "A captivating biography of one of America's great photographers!" according to R A A. 111. It's beneficial to every photographer to learn by studying the works of the masters. Dorothea Lange is one of the greats. A wonderful book detailing her life and her passion for capturing the lives of those who lived through the Great Depression.
Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of 20th-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. 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 20th century's greatest photographers. Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time.. 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