In addition to providing insight into Dorothea Lange's private life (1895–1965) and professional development, Gordon (The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction) explores the wider context in which she lived and worked. The author's careful scholarship reveals the connection between Lange's work and the sociopolitical environment surrounding her, while still portraying her as a normal, flawed human being. Lange is famous for her Depression-era photographs of breadlines and migrant farm workers, yet her career also spanned two World Wars, the rise of fascism and communism, the beginnings of feminism and the civil-rights movement.Copyright Kirkus 2009.
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