Dorothea Lange's Ireland Book

In September 1954 Dorothea Lange, one of photography's foremost artists, traveled to Ireland to document a society where tradition and ties to the land remained strongly intact. She stayed for several weeks, mostly in County Clare on the western sea board, and took 2,400 photographs, the best of which are featured here in Dorothea Lange's Ireland. Despite the international fame of some of Lange's pictures, particularly her photographs of rural poverty in the United States during the Great Depression, only a handful of her Irish images have previously been seen by the public. Yet those who know her work best believe the Irish photographs are some of her finest achievements. Lange's simple yet dramatic photographs depict men and women on their way to church, family members performing daily chores, village streets crowded with cattle on market day, and many other images of rural Ireland. Seemingly ordinary moments in life are presented by Lange in an unusually powerful and dignified manner.