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JOHN GREEN recommends an exhibition of compelling photographic narratives on social and political injustice
Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933 and Drought Refugees, ca. 1935
ROGER McKENZIE suggest this book is used as a resource to help spark resistance to the rise of nuclear power
The allies of the US, like our own country, end up dominated and cowed, concludes ALEX HALL
Read my lips: Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn (Uninhabited Summer Houses), Rethink Everything
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys an imaginative revival of the dance classic
MARIA DUARTE and JOHN GREEN review Michael, The North, Exit 8, Rose of Nevada
Dorothea Lange/Vanessa Winship
Barbican Art Gallery, London
A DOUBLE BILL featuring pioneering documentary photographer Dorothea Lange and contemporary photographer Vanessa Winship makes for a magnificent feast of images.
Incredibly powerful as they are, they're almost too much to digest in one sitting.
Politics of Seeing is the first British retrospective devoted to US photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), a powerful woman of unparalleled vigour and resilience, who used her camera as a political tool to shine a light on injustice — “the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera,” she once said.
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