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Day sleeper : Dorothea Lange, Sam Contis / [photographs by Dorothea Lange ; edited by Sam Contis].

Title

Day sleeper : Dorothea Lange, Sam Contis / [photographs by Dorothea Lange ; edited by Sam Contis].

Author

Lange, Dorothea,

Publication

[London] : MACK, [2020]
©2020

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Contis, Sam,

Description

140 pages, 10 unnumbered postliminary pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

In this book, Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange's extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper - at once a symbol of respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Lange's ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange, and includes previously unseen photographs of her family, portraiture from her studio, and pictures made in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay. Day Sleeper will be featured alongside other works of Contis's in the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures at the Museum of Modern Art, February-May 2020.

Uniform Title

Dorothea Lange, words & pictures.

Alternative Title

Dorothea Lange, Sam Contis

Subject

Note

"Photographs by Dorothea Lange. Edited by Sam Contis"--Colophon
"The photographs in this books are mostly drawn from Dorothea Lange's archive at the Oakland Museum of California."
Essay by Sam Contis.

Call Number

TR647

ISBN

1912339641
9781912339648

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries