Hung Liu: American Exodus presents new work by Hung Liu (Chinese, b. 1948) that are inspired by the Dust Bowl era photographs of American documentary photographer Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965).

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.23234736.4 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.23234736.4 This initial chapter repurposes part of my overall title in order to introduce its ...

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 ...

Ars gratia artis is all very well, but how about art for the sake of the Farm Security Administration? In the National Gallery’s new exhibition, “Dorothea Lange: Seeing People,” many of the ...

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.

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 ...

Introduction: Camera is a tool for learning how to see -- Part 1: Hoboken And San Francisco, 1895-1931 -- Scene 1: -- Child of iron, wounded -- Apprentice to the city -- Becoming a photographer -- ...