{"product_id":"dorothea-lange-politics-of-seeing-9783791357768","title":"Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents Dorothea Langes inspiring and influential photographs  which brought the plight of 20th-century Americas poor and disenfranchised into the public eye.  Dorothea Langes photograph  Migrant Mother  is one of the most indelible and recognizable images of the Dust Bowl era. Langes career stretched far beyond the Great Depression  driven throughout by her compassionate advocacy for the people and land of California. This riveting book opens with Langes Bay Area portraits of the 1920s and 30s when her photo studio formed a hub for San Franciscos bohemian and artistic elite. It offers a generous overview of her work with the Farm Security Administration  where Lange was the only female photographer documenting the impact of the Depression and Dust Bowl on the west coast  working alongside the likes of Walker Evans  as well as her pictures of Japanese Americans forcibly displaced into internment camps following Pearl Harbor. It also includes images from her wartime shipyards series with Ansel Adams  postwar projects on the injustices of the American court system  loss of a community through the damming of the Putah Creek  and a photo series on Ireland. Accompanying these superbly reproduced images are thoughtful essays by curator Drew Johnson  critic Abigail Solomon-Godeau  and writer and curator David Campany  which offer appreciations of Langes work as an artist and humanitarian  charting the legacy of her exceptional photographic oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529628770357,"sku":"ByrdShop_379135776X","price":598.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783791357768.jpg?v=1780939475","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dorothea-lange-politics-of-seeing-9783791357768","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}