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Daring to look : Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field / Anne Whiston Spirn.
- Title
- Daring to look : Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field / Anne Whiston Spirn.
- Author
- Spirn, Anne Whiston, 1947-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Lange, Dorothea
- Description
- xvi, 359 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
- Summary
- This volume presents never-before-published photos and captions from American documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange's (1895-1965) fieldwork in California, the Pacific Northwest, and North Carolina during 1939. Best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. Lange's images of squatter camps, benighted farmers, and stark landscapes are stunning, and her captions -- which range from simple explanations of settings to historical notes and biographical sketches -- add unexpected depth, bringing her subjects and their struggles unforgettably to life, often in their own words.
- Alternative Title
- Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-334) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Dorothea Lange and the art of discovery / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Photographs and reports from the field, 1939 / Dorothea Lange -- California (January to May) -- The highway -- The farm factory -- North Carolina (July) -- The farmers, black and white -- Pacific Northwest (August to October) -- The migrant life -- The government and the farmers -- The cutover land -- The irrigated desert -- Then and now / Anne Whiston Spirn.
- ISBN
- 9780226769844 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226769844 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007038592
- OCLC
- 173243862
- SCSB-12146779
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library