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In 1954 celebrated photographer Dorthea Lange traveled to rural County Claire in Western Ireland on an assignment for Life Magazine. The photos she took there captured a way of life fast ... See full summary
In 1954 celebrated photographer Dorthea Lange traveled to rural County Claire in Western Ireland on an assignment for Life Magazine. The photos she took there captured a way of life fast vanishing and a people hardened, but not broken, by poverty and grueling labor. 44 years later filmmaker Dierdre Lynch returned to Lange's subjects and found that the world of Lynch's photographs had changed, but that the people, more fragile now and weathered by age, still maintained their vitality and spirit. This loving and sensitive portrait of humanity, by times tragic and bittersweet, yet life affirming, took four years to edit, and the final cut is worth the effort.

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    • Author: Xangeo
    A moving and genuine documentary that allows the people of County Clare to tell their own stories, Photos to Send retraces the 1954 travels of Dorothea Lange whose photographs appeared in Life magazine. The filmmaker displays an ability similar to Lange's to win peoples trust and get them to open up for the camera. Interspersed with Lange's own b&w images and interviews with those who knew her, Photos to Send has much to say about Lange and about photography as well as about the people of County Clare then and now. Just occasionally the film lapses into excessive sentimentality, but the overwhelming feeling is of insight into and empathy for the lives of those who feature.
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