California on the Breadlines : Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative /

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California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression's most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private--they both divorced spouses to be together--collaborative, and richly productive. L...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goggans, Jan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Taylor, Paul S. > (Paul Schuster), > 1895-1984
Lange, Dorothea.
Taylor, Paul S. > (Paul Schuster), > 1895-1984.
Women photographers.
Social scientists.
Rural poor.
Depressions.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Crises economiques > 1929 > États-Unis.
Pauvres en milieu rural > États-Unis > Histoire.
Specialistes des sciences sociales > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes photographes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Rural poor > United States > History.
Social scientists > United States > Biography.
Women photographers > United States > Biography.
United States.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression's most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private--they both divorced spouses to be together--collaborative, and richly productive. Lange and Taylor poured their considerable energies into the decade-long project of documenting the plight of California's dispossessed, which in 1939 culminated in the publication of their landmark book, American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Jan Goggans blends biography, literature, and history to re.
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520945890

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