Photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her intimate portraits of Depression-era migrant farmworkers. Her most famous photo, "Migrant Mother", has become an icon of the Dust Bowl era, and of ...

Many years after Dorothea Lange's iconic 1936 photograph, a reporter asked Florence Owens Thompson about the life she eked out for her family. "We just existed," she said, with no sentimentality.

Dorothea Lange was driving by a pea pickers’ camp on the California coast when she stumbled across a weary mother and her many children huddled in a lean-to. It was 1936, during the throes of ...

“The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great ...

It's commonly known as Migrant Mother, and it was taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936 during the Great Depression. In the U.S. Library of Congress, the photograph is labeled as "Destitute pea pickers ...

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother Nipomo, California. March 1936 (1936). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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

Photographer Dorothea Lange is famous for her vivid, evocative portraits of Dust Bowl migrant workers, but her work encompassed much more. Her dedication to social justice is evident throughout ...

In Dorothea Lange: Seeing People an exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the photographer shows the desolation of those days. Migrant Mother, her best-known picture, from 1936 ...

Image: 9.5 x 7.75 in. (24.13 x 19.68 cm.) Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother is one of the most important photographs ever taken. Instantly recognizable, the piece became an iconic image of the Great ...