This is a chronicle of a life in photography. Detailing the adventures of Dorthea Lange, the book raises questions about the uses and effectiveness of the medium and examines her images of anxious mothers and hungry infants and sullen men waiting in long city breadlines.

Its the Roaring Twenties, Jake and Raisa Kessel are married with two kids and a pile of growing debt. They need a change, some new pickings. They pack up for the bright lights and new opportunity in Port Huron, Michigan. They are living high on the hog; overnight, Jake finds himself standing in endless soup lines and even longer job lines. Its The Great Depression. Jake knows he has to make some fast money to get his family back to Wyoming, even if it might be illegal or dangerous.
Back in a Lovell, Wyoming share croppers shack, Jake and Raisa struggle to put food on the table and clothes on...