Aperture Masters of Photography

Dorothea Lange
9781597112956 / 159711295X       
Aperture Masters of Photography

Aperture Masters of Photography

Dorothea Lange
9781597112956 / 159711295X       
Publisher Aperture 2014
Edition Hardcover , 96 pages
Genres Documentary photography
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Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) documented rural poverty for the federal Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1939. Her powerful images–from migrant workers in California fleeing the “dustbowl,” to struggling Southern sharecroppers– became icons of the era. She later photographed Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II and traveled throughout Europe and Asia. This book presents 42 of the greatest images from throughout Lange’s career, including some of her work done abroad. 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. Linda Gordon contributes a new biographical essay and an image-by-image commentary to accompany a newly selected set of photographs. A professor of humanities and history at New York University, she has written at length on Dorothea Lange. Her 2009 book, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, won the Bancroft Prize.“Lange’s work defines an era of destitution and drought, and still resonates even now. This is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest photojournalists.”–Practical Photography, from a review of the original edition.

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Book title Aperture Masters of Photography
Photographer Dorothea Lange
ISBN 10 159711295X        / 1-59711-295-X       
ISBN 13 9781597112956 / 978-1-59711-295-6
Publisher Aperture
Publish date Oct 2014
Publish year 2014
Genre Documentary photography
Book format Hardcover
Pages 96 pages
Dimensions 20,25 x 20,25 cm / 8.2 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches

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