Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
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Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers.The New York Times - David OshinskyGordon expertly analyzes the political culture of Depression-era California, where the enormous power of big agriculture kept tens of thousands of landless workers in peonage and despair. She portrays Lange as an ambivalent radical, deeply sympathetic to the plight of the migrants yet uncomfortable with the chaos that social conflict inevitably produced…Gordon's elegant biography is testament to Lange's gift for challenging her country to open its eyes.
Introduction "A Camera Is a Tool for Learning How to See ..."Pt. I Hoboken and San Francisco 1895-1931Scene 1 31 Child of Iron, Wounded 42 Apprentice to the City 213 Becoming a Photographer 424 Maynard Dixon, Bohemian Artist 655 Working Mother in Bohemia 75Pt. II Depression and Renewal 1932-1935Scene 2 1036 Leaving the Children, Leaving the Studio 1057 A New Deal for Artists 1218 Paul Schuster Taylor, Maverick Economist 1409 The Romance of Love, the Romance of the Cause 15510 Blending a Family 175Pt. III Creating Documentary Photography 1935-1939Scene 3 19111 Father Stryker and the Beloved Community 19312 On the Road: California 20913 Migrant Mother 23514 On the Road: The Dust Bowl 24415 On the Road: The South 25916 An American Exodus 27917 Dorothea and Roy 287Pt. IV Wartime 1939-1945Scene 4 30318 Family Stress 30519 Defiant War Photography: The Japanese Internment 31420 Unruly War Photography: The Office of War Information and Defense Workers 327Pt. V Independent Photographer 1945-1965Scene 5 34321 Surviving in the Cold 34522 Working for Life 36623 Diplomat's Wife 38224 To a Cabin 40125 Photographer of Democracy 423Lange's Photograph Captions 431Acknowledgments 435Note on Photographs and Quotations 437Notes 439Photograph Sources 519Index 523
