Dorothea Lange
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Picturing the Depression
By DAVID OSHINSKY
DOROTHEA LANGE
A Life Beyond Limits
By Linda Gordon
Illustrated. 536 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $35
She became, in Gordon’s words, “America’s pre-eminent photographer of democracy.â€
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera,†she liked to say. Gordon’s elegant biography is testament to Lange’s gift for challenging her country to open its eyes.