![]() ![]() In Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning ( public library), Lange’s goddaughter Elizabeth Partridge, an accomplished and prolific author in her own right, presents a first-of-its-kind career-spanning monograph of the legendary photographer’s work, placing her most famous and enduring photographs in a biographical context that adds new dimension to these iconic images.Īmong the biographical sketches is also the story of Lange’s best-known, infinitely expressive, most iconic photograph of all - Migrant Mother, depicting an agricultural worker named Florence Owens Thompson with her children - which came to capture the harrowing realities of the Great Depression not merely as an economic phenomenon but as a human tragedy. ![]() At the same time that pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott was busy capturing the urban fabric and trailblazing anthropologist Margaret Mead was laying the groundwork for modern anthropology, Dorothea Lange mastered the intersection of the two in her influential Depression-era photojournalism and documentary photography. ![]()
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