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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
"Dorothea Lange was the greatest documentary photographer of her era.
Dorothea lange biography book
Her consummate images of the Great Depression have renewed meaning in our distressed times. While her photograph known as Migrant Mother is one of the world's most recognized images, few people know anything about the artist herself.
In this 'deeply moving biography,' Linda Gordon depicts Lange's passions, conflicts, and achievements in a life that intersected with many of the major moments of twentieth-century American history, but Gordon also boldly reckons with her 'unwomanly' ambition and sometimes imperious personality as well as her generosity and uncanny sensitivity.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895, Lange contracted polio at a young age. It left her with a permanent disability but endowed her, she believed, with an uncommonly heightened sympathy for the disadvantaged. Teaching herself photography through a series of apprenticeships, she moved to San Francisco i