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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Dorothea Lange’s “Destitute peapickers in California; a 32 year old mother of seven children. February 1936 [sic] ... What does Lange’s career look like in 2020?

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.

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.

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 ...

‘I would like to be able to photograph constantly, every hour, every conscious hour,’ Dorothea Lange told an interviewer in 1963, two years before she died. There had always been constraints on how ...

Friday: A look at the Golden State’s past, and present, in Dorothea Lange’s images of California workers. By Jill Cowan How Hunger Persists in a Rich Country Like America ...

Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange had a favorite saying: "A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera." And perhaps no one did more to reveal the human toll of the Great ...