Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America

Elise Hooper

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 2019

0062686534 / 9780062686534

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If you liked Sold on a Monday and Beautiful Exiles, you'll love this novel about strong-willed trailblazing photographer, Dorothea Lange, whose fame grew during World War II and the Great Depression. ?Hooper excels at humanizing giants.seamlessly weaving together the time, places and people in Lange?s life.For photo buffs and others familiar with her vast body of work, reading the book will be like discovering the secret backstory of someone they thought they knew.? ?The Washington PostIn 1918, a fearless twenty-two-year old arrives in bohemian San Francisco from the Northeast, determined to make her own way as an independent woman. Renaming herself Dorothea Lange she is soon the celebrated owner of the city?s most prestigious and stylish portrait studio and wife of the talented but volatile painter, Maynard Dixon.By the early 1930s, as America?s economy collapses, her marriage founders and Dorothea must find ways to support her two young sons single-handedly. Determined to expose the horrific conditions of the nation?s poor, she takes to the road with her camera, creating images that inspire, reform, and define the era. And when the United States enters World War II, Dorothea chooses to confront another injustice?the incarceration of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans.At a time when women were supposed to keep the home fires burning, Dorothea Lange, creator of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, dares to be different. But her choices came at a steep price.…

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Titel
Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America
Autor
Elise Hooper
Verlag
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
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Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0062686534
ISBN-13
9780062686534

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