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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Her iconic photograph ‘Migrant Mother’ cemented Dorothea Lange’s place in history. Now a new exhibition and book seeks to expand the way we see Lange’s substantial body of work.

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 ...