What did San Luis Obispo County look like just before World War II? A rare 55-minute promotional video shot on 16-millimeter color film in 1938 offers a good glimpse, serving as a time capsule of ...

Many of us have an image of what the Great Depression looked like -- even if we weren't there. One reason is because of Dorothea Lange's photographs. Linda Gordon, who wrote a book on the renowned ...

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There are many moments in Friday's "American Masters" documentary on PBS about Dorothea Lange that expand on the film's subtitle, "Grab a Hunk of Lightning." But one, in particular, stands out. It ...

“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind,” Dorothea Lange said--and did. She photographed hungrily, thirstily, finding nourishment in each framed moment ...

Perhaps no one did more to show us the human toll of the Great Depression than Lange, who was born on this day in 1895. Her photos of farm workers and others have become iconic of the era.

JEFFREY BROWN: As we live through what's been called the great recession, it is, of course, the Great Depression of the 1930s that we look to, compare with, and fear repeating.

Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California," March 1936 DOROTHEA LANGE/Courtesy Museum of Modern Art, New York Or there’s Lange’s most famous photograph, the one commonly referred to ...

She is tired but handsome, rather like the man in the 1940 photograph “Migratory Cotton Picker,” which opens the exhibition “Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures” at the Museum of Modern Art ...

A picture of Lange’s son at age five, taken in 1930, shows him angelically unaware, lying on his back in the sun, with what looks like a bunched-up cotton sweater covering his eyes.

Perhaps no one did more to show us the human toll of the Great Depression than Lange, who was born on this day in 1895. Her photos of farm workers and others have become iconic of the era.