Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

<p>Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 <em>Los Angeles Times</em> Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers.</p><br />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 Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than one hundred images—many of them previously unseen and some formerly suppressed—Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. Finalist for the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> Book Prize; a <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em> Best Book.