Stories
Each of Lange’s seventy-five General Captions of 1939 stands as a portrait of a moment, a place, a group of people, a theme. Together, as they appear in the book, DARING TO LOOK, [make link to “Book”] they paint a portrait of rural land and society in America and of the forces transforming them at the height of the Great Depression.
In California, Lange documents the spread of new highways and industrialized agriculture with its migrant workers. In North Carolina, she captures the daily lives of sharecroppers on the farm, in town, at church. In the Pacific Northwest, she covers the irrigation of sagebrush desert and the resettlement of Dust Bowl refugees and the vast acres of cutover forest and the pioneers who settled the stumplands.
The book, DARING TO LOOK, [make link] presents the full text of these reports from the field, along with selected photographs.
CLICK HERE for a list of Dorothea Lange's General Captions of 1939.