Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

by Linda Gordon

Book Overview

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. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039333905X
• ISBN13: 9780393339055
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"