Daring to Look

Preface
Prologue           “A Discoverer, a Real Social Observer”
                        Dorothea Lange

One                  Dorothea Lange and the Art of Discovery
                        Anne Whiston Spirn

Two                 Photographs and Reports from the Field, 1939
                        Dorothea Lange
                              Editor’s Note
                              California (January to May)
                              The Highway
                              The Farm Factory
                              North Carolina (July)
                              The Farmers, Black and White
                              Pacific Northwest (August-October)
                              The Migrant Life
                              The Government and the Farmers
                              The Cutover Land
                              The Irrigated Desert

Three                Then and Now
                        Anne Whiston Spirn

Appendix A      Chronology of Dorothea Lange’s Life
Appendix B       Description of New Deal Organizations and Programs
Appendix C      Documents Submitted by Lange with General Captions
Appendix D      Key to Negatives and General Captions
Appendix E      Additional General Captions from 1939

Notes
Essay on Sources
List of Illustrations
Index