[Signature] Reviewed by Kirstin DowneyHistorian LindaGordon presents us with a portrait of the artist as a woman in herfascinating new biography of photographer Dorothea Lange[1895–1965], who captured the images of Americans on the moveduring the Great Depression.Lange's most famous picture features amigrant woman in California, a refugee from the Dust Bowl. She sitsby the side of the road in her lean-to tent, her children draped onher body, hanging from her haggard frame like dead weights, as shestoically looks out into the distance.But the book's central focusis the journey made by the woman standing behind the camera lens.Lange was raised on New York City's Lower East Side and overcameobstacles almost from the start. During her childhood, her parentsseparated, which Dorothea experienced as a desertion by her father,and a bout of childhood polio left her with a permanent limp. Shespotted an opportunity, however, in photography, which was aburgeoning new art field. Dorothea apprenticed herself to a
Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela hasemerged as the world's most significant moral leader since Gandhi.As president of the African National Congress and spiritualfigurehead of the anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental inmoving South Africa towards black-majority rule. He is reveredthroughout the world as a vital force for human rights and racialequality. Mandela's riveting memoirs, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM , werefirst published in 1994 to universal acclaim. This excitingillustrated edition now portrays his life in words and pictures.Vivid de*ions of his childhood environment, earlyJohannesburg, life in the townships, Robben Island and the events,protests, historic trials and acts of vengeance that forged hisdestiny are now accompanied by haunting and dramatic photographsthat illuminate his story in an unforgettable way.
