Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US instated relocation camps for all Americans of Japanese descent. Photographer Dorothea Lange was hired by the government to document the camps, but her ...

Dorothea Lange’s photos, in particular her 1936 photo “Migrant Mother,” brought attention to the plight of migrant workers during the Great Depression. But as a new coffee table book reminds us, her ...

Migrant Woman (1936) might be Dorothea Lange’s most iconic work, but her photographs on assignment documenting Japanese American internment during World War II were so powerful that the U.S.

The most famous photo ever created in San Luis Obispo County is “Migrant Mother.” The image by Dorothea Lange is of a woman under lean-to tent with her children Norma, Katherine and Ruby. A public ...

Dorothea Lange, “White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco” (1933), gelatin silver print, 10 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Albert M. Bender In the midst of the Great ...

Hardship and despair poured from the photograph. A woman, her face burdened and beset by worry, stares off into the distance. On either side of her, children bury their faces into her shoulder.

Migration is global these days. In this country, it echoes the desolation of the 1930s Depression, and the Dust Bowl, when thousands of Americans left home to look for work somewhere ... anywhere. In ...

Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange had a favorite saying: "A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera." Lange's iconic photograph of Florence Owens Thompson, often referred to as ...

New collections by Gordon Parks, Platon, Peter van Agtmael and Myriam Boulos reveal when you need to tell as well as show. By Arthur Lubow The 900 items from his Atlanta home include blue-chip art by ...