
Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
- Publisher
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9781633451094
- Specifications
- Softcover
64 pages
10 illustrations
Text by Tess Taylor
Photographs by Dorothea Lange
In Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange's winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys, Lange photographed migrant laborers, Dust Bowl refugees, tent cities, and Japanese American internment camps. Taylor's hybrid text collages lyric and oral histories against Lange's own journals and notebook fragments, framing the ways social and ecological injustices of the past rhyme eerily with those of the present. The result is a stunning meditation on movement, landscape, and place.
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