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Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. An Aperture Monograph. Photographs and notes by Dorothea Lange. Essay by Robert Coles; Afterword by Therese Heyman. Reprinted for the first time, here is the most comprehensive collection of the photographer's work ever to be published. It includes portraits from her early years as a fashionable studio photographer, as well as classic images that established her as the preeminent documentary artist of her time. 100 blackandwhite duotone photographs, 50 blackandwhite duotone illustrations, 9 3/4 X 11 3/4, 184 pages. paperback;"Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime captures like all of her work the extraordinary in the commonplace, with rare candor, compassion, and dignity."
Elle Magazine
"The array of images made over her lifetime are given a most elegant and appropriate presentation..." -- The Washington Post
Editorials
Library Journal
This collection of 100 stark pieces of Lange's work captures the lives of the hard-pressed from dustbowl farmers right out of The Grapes of Wrath to photos of Ireland and Egypt. The text also incorporates an essay by Harvard psychiatrist and social investigator Coles. Many of the photos are accompanied by excerpts from Lange's writings (LJ 12/1/82).Book Details
Published
January 1, 1996
Publisher
Millerton, N.Y : Aperture, 1982.
Pages
183
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780893816575