Daring to look : Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field / Anne Whiston Spirn.
2008
HD1525 .S66 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Daring to look : Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field / Anne Whiston Spirn.
Author
Spirn, Anne Whiston, 1947-
ISBN
9780226769844 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226769844 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226769851 (pbk.)
0226769852 (pbk.)
0226769844 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226769851 (pbk.)
0226769852 (pbk.)
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Call Number
HD1525 .S66 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.7/63097309043
Summary
This volume presents never-before-published photos and captions from American documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange's (1895-1965) fieldwork in California, the Pacific Northwest, and North Carolina during 1939. Best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. Lange's images of squatter camps, benighted farmers, and stark landscapes are stunning, and her captions -- which range from simple explanations of settings to historical notes and biographical sketches -- add unexpected depth, bringing her subjects and their struggles unforgettably to life, often in their own words.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-334) and index.
Awards
Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2008.
Added Author
Lange, Dorothea.
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Daring to look.
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Table of Contents
Dorothea Lange and the art of discovery / Anne Whiston Spirn
Photographs and reports from the field, 1939 / Dorothea Lange
California (January to May)
The highway
The farm factory
North Carolina (July)
The farmers, black and white
Pacific Northwest (August to October)
The migrant life
The government and the farmers
The cutover land
The irrigated desert
Then and now / Anne Whiston Spirn.
Photographs and reports from the field, 1939 / Dorothea Lange
California (January to May)
The highway
The farm factory
North Carolina (July)
The farmers, black and white
Pacific Northwest (August to October)
The migrant life
The government and the farmers
The cutover land
The irrigated desert
Then and now / Anne Whiston Spirn.