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 ...

Meanwhile, Migrant Mother made Dorothea Lange's reputation, helped earn her a Guggenheim fellowship, and conferred fame and a permanent place in the canon of American photographers.

Life Summary Best known for her iconic photograph Migrant Mother, photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) had a career that spanned more than four. Skip to main content Skip to footer site map.

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 ...

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 Depression in the United States. This poignant image has become a symbol of the ...

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

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 ...

Dorothea Lange, Woman Washing, Migrant Camp, 1938. Like Migrant Mother , works such as Lettuce Cutting in the Imperial Valley, California (1937) and Woman Washing, Migrant Camp (1938) come from ...

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 ...

Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother". Dorothea Lange SHARE. An original print of Dorothea Lange’s famous—and somewhat controversial—Migrant Mother photo from the Great Depression will be auctioned off ...