Linda Gordon Dorothea Lange ~ A Life Beyond Limits

Historian Linda Gordon has this new book on Dorothea Lange coming out early in the fall. I am certain that it will be terrific. A couple of years ago Gordon edited Impounded ~ the collection of heretofore censored photographs Lange took of the internment camps where the U.S. Government warehoused Japanese citizens during World War II. Here is a lecture ~ "Visual Democracy: Dorothea Lange and the Political Culture of the New Deal" ~ that Gordon delivered at UC Berkeley last year. It is a bit long, but gives an idea what Gordon thinks of Lange and her expansive depiction of American citizenship.