A Note on the Artworks
The story of Dorothea Lange’s career as a documentarian is almost as iconic as her best-known photographs. One day, early in the decade that saw the Great Depression sweep so many into
Alcatraz
How quickly one gets from A to Z, how swiftly one says everything there is to see: these bars, for instance, and the flexible fencing of sharks, and how impossibly far it is—this life from that. ■
