women photographers

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Restless spirit

the life and work of Dorothea Lange
2002
A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms.

The women who wrote the war

1999
Chronicles the experiences of women reporters during World War II, discussing the discrimination they faced from the military and male colleagues, and looking at the adverse physical conditions they suffered in their efforts to bring the story of the war home to America.

Margaret Bourke-White

racing with a dream
1998
Examines the personal life and photographic career of the woman who served as a photojournalist for the magazine "Life" during World War II and the Korean War.

Margaret Bourke-White

1988
A biography of the woman who became a staff photographer for Life magazine and served overseas as a correspondent during World War II and the Korean War.

Dead sleep

2002
Photojournalist Jordan Glass joins the FBI in a desperate investigation after she wanders into a Hong Kong art exhibit of a notorious series of paintings that are rumored to depict dead women and sees her twin sister, missing for over a year, is the subject of one of the portraits.

Dorothea Lange

photographer of the people
2009
Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Dorothea Lange, known for her photographs of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the Western interment camps during World War II; and includes a time line.

Berenice Abbott, photographer

an independent vision
2006
Presents a look at the life and work of New York photographer Berenice Abbot, from her early years in the bohemian communities of Paris and Greenwich Village to her career as a famous photographer. Includes illustrations.

Still life with bread crumbs

a novel
2014
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.

Dead aim

2003
Celebrated photojournalist Alex Graham, having learned the dangerous truth about the collapse of the Arapahoe Dam, finds herself the target of a killer who wants his plans to remain secret, and her situation is further complicated when undercover agent Judd Morgan--a man dogged by his own assassin--is assigned to protect her.

Women photographers at National Geographic

2000
Chronicles the adventures and achievments of approximately forty women who have worked as photographers for "National Geographic" magazine throughout the twentieth century, and features reproductions of some of their most significant work.

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