GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Documentary dramas
JOHN GREEN recommends an exhibition of compelling photographic narratives on social and political injustice
Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933 and Drought Refugees, ca. 1935
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Dorothea Lange/Vanessa Winship
Barbican Art Gallery, London
A DOUBLE BILL featuring pioneering documentary photographer Dorothea Lange and contemporary photographer Vanessa Winship makes for a magnificent feast of images.
Incredibly powerful as they are, they're almost too much to digest in one sitting.
Politics of Seeing is the first British retrospective devoted to US photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), a powerful woman of unparalleled vigour and resilience, who used her camera as a political tool to shine a light on injustice — “the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera,” she once said.
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