Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph, taken during the Great Depression in San Luis Obispo County, will be honored ...

I shied away from Marisa Silver's new novel because of its book jacket: a reproduction of Dorothea Lange's iconic Depression-era photograph called "Migrant Mother." You know it: the woman's strong ...

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 ...

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 ...

The career of Dorothea Lange, the influential photographer who created some of the most iconic bodies of work of the 20th century, took a substantially different turn on a fateful day in 1933, when ...

Migrant Mother was shot by Lange in Nipomo, California, in 1936 while on an assignment documenting the plight of impoverished farmers for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). In a 1960 interview ...