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Dorothea Lange

A Life Beyond Limits

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Dorothea Lange

By: Linda Gordon
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
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Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the 20th century's greatest photographers.

We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos - the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl - but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of 20th-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time.

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The narrator really killed this one for me, at times she sounded like a wasp in a jar, ruining what is a fascinating life story and a lot of the background behind Lange's photos in particular the best years with the FSA.

A good story lost in the wash

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Thats what the title should be as its as much about the country's struggle through the depression and the war as it is a biography about Dorothea Lange. It is a bit repetitive and at times its a struggle to read but it does cover the person and the times well. It has a lot of detail about Dorotea Lange I never knew and not being American, this gave me a good insight into the Depression and their war effort.

How the American Depression affected Photography.

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worth a listen. I learnt a lot about history as well as Lange. Performance could have been better but was OK once I got into it. some odd editing glitches.

Fascinating biography.

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Five stars for Linda Gordon's writing and the rich historical setting she provides, always going into valuable depth about the background, causes, economic factors, prejudices, and prevailing movements that influenced Dorothea Lange's life. Kathleen Gati's narration, however, is atrocious. She repeatedly commits two of the gravest sins of audiobook narration. First, she routinely butchers pronunciations--far more than I could keep track of but many cringe-worthily bad (James Aggy, not AY-gee, Modest-OH, not MOH-desto) and some simply jaw-droppingly bad (at least once "photography" comes out "photoGRAPH-ee"). Second, it quickly becomes obvious that her first reading of the text is the one that got recorded, because many times her intonation drops, as if she thought the end of a line of text was also the end of a sentence--only to sudden pick up again as she discovers there's more left on the following line. Don't let the sample fool you--much audible suffering will be involved to get through this book. Overall, is it worth the effort? Yes, very much so: but it's a real shame what one reader did to muck up a fine book.

Excellent biography, terrible narration

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