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. Some of our understanding of that ...

Asked in 1964 about the most significant thing she had learned about Americans while photographing those fleeing the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, Dorothea Lange answered: "I many times encountered courage, ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those who make pictures don’t always speak or write very openly about their work or themselves. And so writing about visual artists-or musicians, for the ...

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Smith is the author of "Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940." Our image of the Great Depression has been indelibly shaped by the photographs of Dorothea Lange: homeless men ...

Our image of the Great Depression has been indelibly shaped by the photographs of Dorothea Lange: homeless men standing dejectedly in line for food at a San Francisco mission, rickety jalopies crammed ...

"This exquisite monograph honors the documentarian in a comprehensive celebration of her life and work. An authoritative biography written by her god-daughter, Elizabeth Partride, unveils the ...