Albert Whitman & Company, 2017. Hardcover. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. (8 x 0.2 x 10 inches) 32 pp.

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ISBN: 9780807516997

Dorothea Lange always wanted to be a photographer.

She knew she could see what others missed. She understood being over looked after polio left her with a limp and her classmates avoided her. But polio also gave Dorothea a sense of empathy, which she would never lose.

When the Great Depression struck, that empathy led Dorothea to take her camera to the streets. She took photos of men waiting in breadlines and sleeping on sidewalks. The Depression had cost them their jobs and they had nowhere to go. Dorothea saw that they had been overlooked. She took their photos so the world could see them.

But Dorothea didn't stop there. People began to notice her photographs and soon she was working for the government. Into the dust bowl, into migrant camps, she went looking for the poor, the hungry, those who had been forgotten. She was in search of faces to depict the Great Depression.

In lyrical prose, Dorothea Lange tells the story of how the photographer found what she was looking for and got America to take note.

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