Word: dorothea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMERICAN EXODUS - Dorothea Lange & Paul Schuster Taylor-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.75). Subtitled A Record of Human Erosion, this volume tells in nonfiction, mainly in photographs, the grim story most famously told in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Some of the photographs are exceedingly good; some are merely "magnificent" - over-filtered, overdramatized. Even so, the whole selection considerably excels that in the Caldwell-Bourke-White collaboration, You Have Seen Their Faces, or in Archibald MacLeish's poem with photographs, Land of the Free. The text has dignity and is compactly informative. Many of the captions are direct quotations...
Last week, after considerable earnest fact-finding, CBS had all the dope on Fred. He was Butcher John Kaltenbach's boy, from Waterloo, the one who went to Berlin in 1936 to get his Ph.D., married a German girl named Dorothea Peters from the staff of Hermann Goring's aviation magazine, and signed up with the Nazi propaganda staff...
...Camera has its quota of unaesthetic nudes, meaningless pattern designs, and pretty pictures, which constitute too large a part of the book; but after wading through it, there are several photographs which make it a worth-while volume--top honors going to Edward Steichen, Bradford Washburn, Martin Munkacsi, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston...