Dorothea Lange
Selected Bibliography

Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Dorothea Lange bibliography. For biography, see Dorothea Lange Page. The ISLMC is a meta-site of educational materials for school librarians, teachers, parents and students. You can search this site, use an index or sitemap. Citations are from the Library of Congress catalog.

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Books with Lange as Primary Author

Lange, Dorothea and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York: Arno Press, 1975, c1939.

The Thunderbird Remembered: Maynard Dixon, the Man and the Artist. Sketched from memory by his wife Dorothea Lange, his last wife Edith Hamlin, and his two sons Daniel & John. 1st book ed. Los Angeles, CA: Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Association with University of Washington Press, 1994.

Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1939; From the Library of Congress. Glencoe, IL: Text-Fiche Press, 1980.

Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1967.

Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange. Text by Jan Arrow (i.e. Arnow). London: Macdonald, 1985.

Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange's Ireland. Text by Gerry Mullins; essay by Daniel Dixon,; photographs from the collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Washington, DC: Elliot & Clark, 1996.

Lange, Dorothea. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Keith F. Davis. Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards in association with H.N. Abrams, 1995

Lange, Dorothea. The Human Face. Paris: NBC Editions, 1998.

Lange, Dorothea and Margaretta K. Mitchell. To a Cabin. New York: Grossman, 1973.

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Books with Lange Credited as Photographer

Conrat, Maisie, comp. Executive Order 9066. Photos by Dorothea Lange and Others. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press for the California Historical Society, 1972.

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Biography -- Juvenile

Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: Life through the Camera. Illustrations by Donna Diamond; photographs by Dorothea Lange. New York: Puffin, 1986.

Partridge, Elizabeth. Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange. New York: Viking, 1998.

Turner, Robyn. Dorothea Lange. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.

Venezia, Mike. Dorothea Lange. New York: Children's Press, 2000.

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Biography & Nonfiction

Dorothea Lange--A Visual Life. Edited by Elizabeth Partridge. Washington: Smithsonian, 1994.
Biography

Image and Imagination: Encounters with the Photography of Dorothea Lange. Edited by Ben Clarke. San Francisco: Freedom Voices, 1997.

Poems and prose from writing workshops based on the photography of Dorothea Lange and Scott Braley.

Becker, Karin E. Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

Biography

Durden, Mark. Dorothea Lange. New York: Phaidon, 2001.

Heyman, Therese Thau. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange. Oakland: Oakland Museum, 1978.

Issued to accompany a traveling exhibition of photographs selected from the Oakland Museum's collection.

Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981.

The Aperture History of Photography Series

Lange, Dorothea. The Making of a Documentary Photographer. Berkeley: University of California, Bancroft Library, 1968.

An interview conducted by Suzanne Riess.

Lange, Dorothea. Photographs of a Lifetime. Millerton, NY: Aperture; distributed by Viking Penguin, 1982.

Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978.

Biography

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