Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl migrants made her one of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th century. But her famous Migrant Mother and other images ...

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US instated relocation camps for all Americans of Japanese descent. Photographer Dorothea Lange was hired by the government to document the camps, but her ...

Migrant Woman (1936) might be Dorothea Lange’s most iconic work, but her photographs on assignment documenting Japanese American internment during World War II were so powerful that the U.S.

(Dorothea Lange) Migrant Mother in Nipomo, California, 1936. Lange’s original caption: “Destitute peapickers in California; a 32 year old mother of seven children. February 1936.” MIT Professor Anne ...

The most famous photo ever created in San Luis Obispo County is “Migrant Mother.” The image by Dorothea Lange is of a woman under lean-to tent with her children Norma, Katherine and Ruby. A public ...

Hardship and despair poured from the photograph. A woman, her face burdened and beset by worry, stares off into the distance. On either side of her, children bury their faces into her shoulder.

One of the most iconic images of the twentieth century is a photograph of a 32-year-old woman, Florence Owens Thompson, looking beaten down but not defeated. Two of her children crowd close to her as ...

Dorothea Lange, “White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco” (1933), gelatin silver print, 10 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Albert M. Bender In the midst of the Great ...

Oakland Museum of California has launched a Dorothea Lange Digital Archives program, posting online some of the world-renowned documentary photographer’s photographs, negatives and personal quotes.

In 1965 the curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) made two trips to visit Dorothea Lange at her home in California. Together, John Szarkowsi and Lange prepared for the museum’s ...

New collections by Gordon Parks, Platon, Peter van Agtmael and Myriam Boulos reveal when you need to tell as well as show. By Arthur Lubow The 900 items from his Atlanta home include blue-chip art by ...