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 ...

One of the most iconic images of the twentieth century is a photograph of a 32-year-old woman, Florence Owens Thompson, looking beaten down but not defeated. Two of her children crowd close to her as ...

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.

In 1965 the curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) made two trips to visit Dorothea Lange at her home in California. Together, John Szarkowsi and Lange prepared for the museum’s ...

Oakland Museum of California has launched a Dorothea Lange Digital Archives program, posting online some of the world-renowned documentary photographer’s photographs, negatives and personal quotes.

Artist Sam Contis, whose primary medium is photography, moved to Oakland, California, from New York in 2012, settling in a neighborhood not 10 minutes by car from the photographic archive of one of ...

While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we are spotlighting an inspiring exhibition that was previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to give you a virtual ...

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photo was shot during the Great Depression while Lange was working for the FSA. Dorothea Lange SHARE Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother image is an image that has come to ...

Jasmin Darznik’s new historical novel, “The Bohemians,” traces iconic photographer Dorothea Lange’s early career in San Francisco. Just like Lange, Darznik’s family experienced the city as a new ...

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 ...