Dorothea Lange's Ireland by Dorothea Lange, Gerry Mullins, Dorothea Lange (Photographer), Photographs form The Collection of The Oakland Museum of California, Daniel Dixon

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In September 1954 Dorothea Lange, one of photography's foremost artists, traveled to Ireland to document a society where tradition and ties to the land remained strongly intact. She stayed for several weeks, mostly in County Clare on the western sea board, and took 2,400 photographs, the best of which are featured here in Dorothea Lange's Ireland. Despite the international fame of some of Lange's pictures, particularly her photographs of rural poverty in the United States during the Great Depression, only a handful of her Irish images have previously been seen by the public. Yet those who know her work best believe the Irish photographs are some of her finest achievements. Lange's simple yet dramatic photographs depict men and women on their way to church, family members performing daily chores, village streets crowded with cattle on market day, and many other images of rural Ireland. Seemingly ordinary moments in life are presented by Lange in an unusually powerful and dignified manner.

Library Journal

Internationally famous documentary photographer Lange (1895-1965) spent six weeks in Ireland in 1954. This book of over 100 black-and-white photographs depicting the people and customs of Irish country life is the result of that trip. Lange took her camera to the countryside to photograph the lives of rural Irish shopkeepers, farmers, and schoolchildren involved in daily chores and in ordinary activity. Best known for her photographs of struggling migrant farm workers during the Great Depression (her trademark photograph is "Migrant Mother," Nipomo, California, 1936), Lange also concentrates on the people in this work, with the rural countryside as background. Throughout, the reader gets a sense of the lifestyle, concerns, and humanity of her subjects. The essays are informative and put the photographs in the context of today's Ireland-not so very different from what Lange captured some 30 years ago. This beautiful book is recommended for all travel and photography collections.-Janine A. Reid, Jefferson Cty. P.L., Lakewood, Col.

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