Landscapes, languor and limbs: the other side of Dorothea Lange
(The Guardian Culture News)

Migrant Mother, Lange´s image from the Depression, came to define her - but a new book reveals a more intimate, strikingly modern side to the great photographer`Some things you do get a life of their own,` Dorothea Lange once told an interviewer. `They cut loose from the person who made them.` She was referring to her photograph Migrant Mother, in which she distilled the collective trauma of the Great Depression into a single, hauntingly intimate portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, a sharecropper´s wife.Taken in 1936, it became one of the most famous images of the 20th century, but the way it came to define her work made Lange ambivalent about the role - and limits - of documentary photography. Continue reading...