Best known for her iconic photograph Migrant Mother, photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) had a career that spanned more than four decades. In 1919 at the age of 23 she daringly opened a ...

Migrant Woman (1936) might be Dorothea Lange’s most iconic work ... in an interview that appears in the photographer’s 1994 biography A Visual Life. “I’ve never seen her that way before ...

(Click here to follow Julia Baird). As Linda Gordon points out in her excellent new biography, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, the photographs Lange took of the "handsome homeless ...

It and many other photos were taken by a woman who is herself the subject of a new biography: “Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits.” Its author is Linda Gordon, professor of history at New ...

She was “a photographer of democracy, and for democracy,” writes historian Linda Gordon, whose thorough biography “Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits” is at its best when detailing Lange ...

By Zachary Small Friday: A look at the Golden State’s past, and present, in Dorothea Lange’s images of California workers. By Jill Cowan Beyond the pandemic emergency, there is a food crisis ...

There are many moments in Friday's "American Masters" documentary on PBS about Dorothea Lange that expand on the film's subtitle, "Grab a Hunk of Lightning." But one, in particular, stands out.

NEW YORK — The woman in Dorothea Lange’s most famous photograph, often labeled simply “Migrant Mother,” is, among other things, rather beautiful. Her face may be weathered and lined with ...

“Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing,” continuing through Aug. 13, draws on the archive of her 25,000 negatives and 6,000 prints, donated to the museum after her death in 1965. The exhibit ...