Dream job

January 24, 2013 · by minacarson | in SHPR, Uncategorized | tagged 9-11, Air Force One, Barack Obama, combat photographers, d, David Hume Kennerly, EI 800, Gerald Ford, Jody Lenkoski Schiliro, LBJ, National Geographic, PBS, Pete Souza, photography, Plebe Summer, President's Photographer, Pulitzer Prize, Saigon, South Vietnam, Tri-X, UPI, West Wing, White House, Yoichi Okamoto | 1 Comment

I watched The President’s Photographer a few months ago, and decided to celebrate the inauguration by watching it again. This is a PBS documentary mostly about Pete Souza, President Obama’s official photographer, but with significant glances back over the history of presidential photography back through LBJ. (Of course there were photographs of presidents before Lyndon Johnson, […]

A biography worthy of its subject (Linda Gordon’s DOROTHEA LANGE)

January 8, 2013 · by minacarson | in SHPR, Uncategorized | tagged A Life Beyond Limits, Arnold Genthe, biography, Clarence H. White, Columbia University Teachers College, documentary photography, Doris Ulmann, Dorothea Lange, family violence, Farm Security Administration, Florence Thompson, FSA, Gordonton, Greenwich Village, history of photography, Imogen Cunningham, Laura Gilpin, Linda Gordon, Margaret Bourke-White, Marsh's, Maynard Dixon, Migrant Mother, New Deal, New York City, Paul S. Taylor, polio, Roy Stryker, San Francisco | 2 Comments

I’ve just finished reading Linda Gordon’s 2009 biography of Dorothea Lange (Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits). It’s a thorough, honest narrative of this difficult life and its astonishing production. And it must have been hard to be honest about this life of choices. It is still the case that a man who chooses his […]

The historian's lens

"Photographs don't discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal." — Robert Goddard

Monthly Archives: January 2013

Dream job

A biography worthy of its subject (Linda Gordon’s DOROTHEA LANGE)