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Photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her intimate portraits of Depression-era migrant farmworkers, but a new book shows how her life's work spans decades and continents.
Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother image is an image that has come to visually define the Great Depression and intrigued photographers for decades. Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother photo was shot during ...
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 ...
The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great Depression in the United States. This poignant image has become a symbol of the ...
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.
Nearly 100 years ago, Lange chronicled the destitution and desperation of The Great Depression. An exhibition of her work at the National Gallery of Art speaks to the present day migrant crisis.
Unraveling the Mysteries of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ The history behind Ms. Lange’s photograph of Florence Owens Thompson has intrigued academics and photographers for decades.
Vik Muniz’s interpretation of Dorothea Lange’s most iconic photograph, Migrant Mother, is from his Pictures of Ink series. To create this piece, Muniz meticulously rendered Lange’s original image ...
Nearly 100 years ago, Lange chronicled the destitution and desperation of The Great Depression. An exhibition of her work at the National Gallery of Art speaks to the present day migrant crisis.
Nearly 100 years ago, Lange chronicled the destitution and desperation of The Great Depression. An exhibition of her work at the National Gallery of Art speaks to the present day migrant crisis.
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 ...