Dorothea Lange bookcover

Dorothea Lange

The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression
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Description

Before she raised her lens to take her most iconic photo, Dorothea Lange took photos of the downtrodden, from bankers in once-fine suits waiting in breadlines, to former slaves, to the homeless sleeping on sidewalks. A case of polio had left her with a limp and sympathetic to those less fortunate. Traveling across the United States, documenting with her camera and her fieldbook those most affected by the stock market crash, she found the face of the Great Depression. In this picture book biography, Carole Boston Weatherford's lyrical prose captures the spirit of the influential photographer.

Product Details

PublisherAlbert Whitman & Company
Publish DateFebruary 28, 2017
Pages32
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9780807516997
Dimensions10.0 X 8.1 X 0.3 inches | 0.8 pounds
BISAC Categories: Kids, Kids, Kids, Kids

About the Author

Carole Boston Weatherford is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections and poetic biographies, including Sugar Hill and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, winner of a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, and the NAACP Image Award. She teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.

Sarah Green is a California born-and-based illustrator. This is not her first foray into children's books. She studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 2014.

Reviews

STARRED REVIEW! Weatherford never talks down to her audience...using figurative language and rich vocabulary to tell her story...Green's debut as a picture-book illustrator is brilliant...A fine introduction to an important American artist.--Kirkus Reviews starred review


A well-researched and inviting introduction to a woman whose important, compassionate art captured the nation's attention.--Booklist
Weatherford writes eloquently of Lange's creative drive and compassion . . . Lange was not only an artist driven to make art but an activist whose images generated awareness of suffering and injustice.--Publishers Weekly

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