Dorothea Lange - APERTURE MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Dorothea Lange - APERTURE MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) documented rural poverty for the federal Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1939.…
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Dorothea Lange - APERTURE MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) documented rural poverty for the federal Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1939. She later photographed Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II and traveled throughout Europe and Asia. Her powerful images--from migrant workers in California fleeing the "dustbowl," to struggling Southern sharecroppers-- became icons of the era.
She possessed the ability, as she put it, to photograph "things as they are" and through this her photographs give us "more about the subjects than just the faces." It is no wonder that Edward Steichen called her the greatest documentary photographer in the United States. This book presents 42 of the greatest images from throughout Lange's career, including some of her work done abroad. Linda Gordon contributes a new biographical essay and an image-by-image commentary to