DOROTHEA LANGE FIELD NOTES AND PHOTOGRAPHS 1935-1940
DOROTHEA LANGE FIELD NOTES AND PHOTOGRAPHS 1935-1940
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1979
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Brown , Zoe
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Abstract
A characterization of Dorothea Lange--or any of her FSA colleagues--as a photographer traveling through the country solely to make compassionate images of people who needed help is only partly true. Lange was indeed a humanitarian, but she was also an employee of the government, on assignment. Her agencies did indeed assign photographers to record the effects of the Depression in human terms, but it also assigned them to record the achievements of government programs, to make photographs that would justify the administration's policies.10 This mingling of intentions--sometimes objective and historical, sometimes frankly seeking support for a point of view--is apparent in all of Lange's camera work and writings of the thirties.
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Two volumes (v. 1 - v. 2), vol. 2 has two parts.