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A Life Beyond Limits
W.W. Norton & Co.
October 2009
On Sale: October 19, 2009
560 pages
ISBN: 0393057305
EAN: 9780393057300
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Dorothea Lange’s photographs define how we remember the
Depression generation; now an evocative biography defines
her creative struggles and enduring legacy. We all know
Dorothea Lange’s iconic photos—the “Migrant Mother” holding
her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlines—but
few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping
account, renowned historian Linda Gordon charts Lange’s
journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, to San
Francisco portrait photographer, to chronicler of the Great
Depression and World War II. Gordon uses Lange’s life to
anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America,
re-creating the bohemian world of San Francisco, the Dust
Bowl, and the Japanese American internment camps. She
explores Lange’s growing radicalization as she embraced the
democratic power of the camera, and she examines Lange’s
entire body of work, reproducing more than one hundred
images, many of them previously unseen and some of them
formerly suppressed. Lange reminds us that beauty can be
found in unlikely places, and that to respond to injustice,
we must first simply learn how to see it. 128 photos.
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