Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life - Softcover

Milton Meltzer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815606222 ISBN 13: 9780815606222

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This is a chronicle of a life in photography. Detailing the adventures of Dorthea Lange, the book raises questions about the uses and effectiveness of the medium and examines her images of anxious mothers and hungry infants and sullen men waiting in long city breadlines.

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Review:

It is one of the glories of Milton Meltzer's superb life of Lange . . . that his innate reporting skill and honesty forbade him to gloss over the complexities and conflicts.--New York Times Book Review

As Meltzer develops his richly detailed study, the adventures of Dorothea Lange become as compelling as the unforgettable images she photographed-the anxious mothers surrounded by hungry infants, the sullen, staring men waiting in long city breadlines, the worn, dispirited farmers.--Newsweek

Meltzer's book is significant both because it chronicles a life in photography in rare detail and because it raises questions about the uses and effectiveness of the medium. Meltzer's book makes clear how art and life can feed on or devour each other.--American Photographer

About the Author:

Milton Meltzer is the author of many books of history and biography, four of them nominated for the National Book Award. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0815606222
• ISBN 13: 9780815606222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416