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 ...

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 ...

Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother photo was shot during the Great Depression while Lange was working for the FSA. Dorothea Lange. Lange made the photo while employed by the federal Farm Security ...

The photograph taken by Dorothea Lange, “Migrant Mother,” was rooted in time and place. Then the photo began its journey.

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother Nipomo, California. March 1936 (1936). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Installation view, “Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures” at the Museum of ...

On March 11, 1936, Dorthea Lange's iconic image, Migrant Mother, was published in the San Francisco News. Since that first publication, the iconic photo ...

Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' Inspires The Story Of 'Mary Coin' Marisa Silver's new novel imagines the meeting of a Depression-era photographer and her now-iconic subject. Giving the ...

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 ...

I shied away from Marisa Silver's new novel because of its book jacket: a reproduction of Dorothea Lange's iconic Depression-era photograph called "Migrant Mother." You know it: the woman's strong ...