Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Gordon, Linda. paperback edition. ISBN: 8580000955781.

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 Americas Depression and one of the twentieth centurys greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea Langes 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 Langes transformation into a documentarist. Using Langes 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 Yorkers A Years Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book. 128 black-and-white photos