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| Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
     
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Hardcover
128 pages
Viking Childrens Books
Published 1998
From School Library Journal
Grade 6 Up-As a photographer, Lange specialized in documentary-type portraits, seeking to capture in people's faces the stories of their lives. Through the years of the Great Depression and the Second World War, she recorded the down-and-out, the oppressed, the needy. Her portrait "Migrant Mother" has become a familiar icon of hardship, a symbol of the dislocation and poverty caused by the dust bowl in the 1930s. Her camera recorded the Japanese Americans sent to internment camps in the 1940s, and in later travels she preserved the images of children around the world. As a young girl the author knew Lange and was, through her photographer father, connected with the intimate circle of Lange's family and friends. She uses personal memories; her subject's own written words in diaries, interviews, and letters; and especially a liberal selection of dramatic photographs to show the talent and the complex personality of this extraordinary woman. It was hard for Lange, in the decades in which she lived, to pursue her career while balancing family responsibilities and personal crises. She was independent, even radical, in her political thinking and social philosophy. Her story resonates with issues of gender, social policies, artistic merit, and human interest. This well-constructed, sympathetic biography deserves many readers and is a must for every library.
Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Gr. 6^-12. Lange's stirring black-and-white photographs, more than 60 of them, exquisitely reproduced, provide the drama in this biography of the famous camera artist. Here are the famous pictures that brought the nation up close to the man on the bread line during the Depression, a migrant mother unable to feed her children, a sharecropper in the South, a homeless child on the road, a Japanese American family interned during World War II. The beautiful, spacious design of this photo-essay, with... read more
Book Description
Dorothea Lange chose to work as a photographer during a time when family was supposed to come first for a woman. Like so many women, she had a husband and children to take care of--but no matter how hard she tried, family life could not substitute for the work she loved. Her passion was photographing people. During her career, Dorothea Lange captured some of the most desperate and beautiful faces America has seen in photographs. Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange includes over sixty of Lange's extraordinary photographs printed in high quality duotones, and chronicles Lange's life from her childhood on the Lower East Side of New York, through her early years as a portrait photographer in San Francisco, to her famous work for the government photographing starving migrant workers in California. Also included are her heart-breaking photographs of Japanese Americans interned on the West Coast during World War II. Author Elizabeth Partridge has woven Lange's own words into her book, creating not just another biography, but an intimate portrait of the artist who put faces on some of the darkest episodes in America's history. Restless Spirit presents a magnificent showcase of work that will not soon be forgotten. Dorothea Lange was Elizabeth Partridge's godmother and her father was Lange's photographic assistant in the 1930s. |
Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer
Pierre Borhan |  |
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Photographs of Dorothea Lange
Keith Davis |  |
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Documenting America, 1935-1943 (Approaches to American Culture, No 2)
Carl Fleischhauer (Editor); Beverly W. Brannan (Editor); & Lawrence W. Levine (Editor) |  |
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American Photographers of the Depression: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and the FSA Photographers (Photofile)
Charles Hagen |  |
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Dorothea Lange: American Photographs
Therese Thau Heyman (Contributor); Sandra S. Phillips; & John Szarkowski (Contributor) |  |
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Dorothea Lange: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
Judith Keller |  |
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Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime
Dorothea Lange; & Robert Coles |  |
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Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime
Dorothea Lange; Robert Coles (Introduction); & Therese Heyman (Photographer) |  |
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Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
Dorothea Lange; Linda Gordon (Editor); & Gary Y. Okihiro (Editor) |  |
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An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion
Dorothea Lange; Paul S. Taylor; & Paul Taylor |  |
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Photographing the 2nd Gold Rush: Dorothea Lange and the East Bay at War 1941-1945
Dorothea Lange; & Charles Wollenberg (Introduction) |  |
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Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life
Milton Meltzer; & Dorothea Lange (Photographer) |  |
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Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
Elizabeth Partridge; & Dorothea Lange |  |
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Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
Elizabeth Partridge; & Dorothea Lange |  |
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Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life
Elizabeth Partridge (Editor) |  |
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Elusive Truth: Four Photographers at Manzanar
Gerald H. Robinson |  |
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In Real Life: Six Women Photographers
Leslie Sills; Alvarez Bravo (Photographer); Cindy Sherman (Photographer); & Carrie Mae Weems |  |
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In Real Life: Six Women Photographers
Leslie Sills; Imogen Cunningham (Photographer); Dorothea Lange (Photographer); Carrie Mae Weems (Photographer); & Elsa Dorfman (Photographer) |  |
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Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
Anne Whiston Spirn (Author) |  |
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Dorothea Lange (Portraits of Women Artists for Children)
Robyn Montana Turner |  |
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Dorothea Lange
Mike Venezia (Illustrator) |  |
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