Product Description

A Beautiful Collection Featuring the Groundbreaking Work of the Legendary Female Photojournalist.

American photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was an overtly political photographer, who used her camera to capture an era of social change and struggle in America. Her iconic photographs document the intensity of human life and the power of human emotion. Lange's impact on photojournalism can still be felt today.

DOROTHEA LANGE by Mark Durden, is an illustrated overview of the work of this legendary photographer. This book documents the development of her photography from the mid-thirties to early forties through a chronological sequence of 55 black and white images with accompanying text offering insight into her emotionally and politically-charged work.

Tired of studio portraiture, Lange began working for the Farm Security Administration in 1935, where she created many of the photographs that define the Depression and Western migration of farming families in the popular imagination. Included in this collection of photographic essays is one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century--the Migrant Mother, also known as Migrant Madonna, taken in California in 1936.

DOROTHEA LANGE provides an elegantly produced introduction to the acclaimed social realist photographer, whose photographs continue to serve as a powerful testament to the trials and depths of humanity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #520355 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

From Publishers Weekly
In this Women of Our Time biography, the author follows Lange from her birth in 1895 to her death in 1965. "Meltzer writes as accessibly to younger children as he does to advanced readers of his distinguished nonfiction. The story is outstanding," PW noted.
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About the Author
Author Details

Mark Durden is an artist, writer and lecturer. He has written extensively on photography and contemporary art for a number of journals, including Creative Camera, Portfolio and Art Monthly. Together with Craig Richardson he curated the exhibition `Face On' and also co-edited the accompanying book Face On: Photography as Social Exchange (2000). He is currently Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Photography at the University of Derby.

Photographer details

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was a highly acclaimed social realist photographer who recorded one of the most important historical periods in American social history. Her career began in 1916 taking portraits in a studio. During the Depression she changed her career path and started to take pictures of people on the streets of San Francisco. In 1935, she was hired by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to formally document the Depression, where she established her photojournalistic talent for simultaneously emphasizing the laborer's struggle between dignity and poverty. She also photographed other historic events in America such as Japanese Internment Camps and the 1945 United Nations Conference.