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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Dorothea Lange’s photo, “Migrant Mother” captures the weariness and pain of the Great Depression. The work may be the most famous image of one of the difficult chapters in American history.
Dorothea Lange: An alternative look at the photographer who humanised the Great Depression Her iconic photograph ‘Migrant Mother’ cemented Dorothea Lange’s place in history. Now a new ...