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    Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning

    By Elizabeth Partridge and Dorothea Lange

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    This beautiful volume celebrates one of the twentieth century's most important photographers, Dorothea Lange. Led off by an authoritative biographical essay by Elizabeth Partridge (Lange's goddaughter), the book goes on to showcase Lange's work in over a hundred glorious plates. Dorothea Lange is the only career-spanning monograph of this major photographer's oeuvre in print, and features images ranging from her iconic Depression-era photograph "Migrant Mother" to lesser-known images from her global travels later in life. Presented as the companion book to a PBS American Masters episode that will air in 2014, this beautiful ebook offers an intimate and unparalleled view into the life and work of one of our most cherished documentary photographers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9781452131962
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    Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
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    Elizabeth Partridge

    Elizabeth Partridge is the author of This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and other acclaimed works. She and her husband live in the San Francisco Bay area.

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    • 5/5
      Lange's images are the focus in this book. That seems a silly thing to say about a book of photographs but sometimes an author gets to talk a lot more than the biography's subject. I appreciated the opportunity to really study each image without distraction. That there are so many included (another pet peeve when publishers deem an entire career can be shown in the three photos we've already seen.) allows one to flip through a life's work in one piece. Lange's careful eye caught the story that the men working at the time just missed. The women and children shown in this collection are hard-working, proud people. Despite seeing some truly awful situations she did not use embarrassing sights to demean them. I will return to this fabulous collection whenever I need some inspiration. Lange had much say through her images but she worked just as hard to document each with careful captions full of helpful bits. Those are also included here. My takeaway, is that you can have all the megapixels and fast glass in the world but if you don't have anything to say then you have nothing to photograph.
    • 5/5
      Very interesting. The first half of the book is mainly biography with very few and very small images. The pictures come as a block later.
    • 5/5
      This is a stunning volume. Partridge's text really performs the task of letting Lange speak of her own life and work. It feels like a good balance between life story and art story. The photos are presented well and the captions (something Lange herself was attentive too) refine the photo, placing it into its vital context. The humanity of her work never ceases to come through and Lange is anything but a dispassionate eye of loss and hardship and the casual brutality of economics and politics. Lange's own observations about photography and her subjects are well documented here and enrich our understanding of her art and the context of its creation. This is a terrific survey of a seminal American photographer whose works resonate as much today as they did when they were taken.

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    • 5/5
      Before reading this book, I knew something of Dorothea Lange, but not much. This peek into her social documentary photography was powerful... And watching her grow into her vision and voice was astounding. She's now one of my artistic heroes, and photographic heroes. I will be studying more of her work, as much as I can find.