Dorothea Lange

Informationen zum Autor Winner of two Bancroft Prizes for best book in American history, Linda Gordon is the author of The Second Coming of the KKK and a biography of photographer Dorothea Lange. She lives in New York and Madison, Wisconsin. Klappentext 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 Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Gordon, Linda (New York University) Gordon
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2011
• EAN: 9780393339055
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33905-5
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Fotograf - Fotografin, Englische Bücher / Kunst, Architektur, Fotografie