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The onset of the Great Depression in the 1930s caused Lange to turn her camera lens from the studio to the street. She embarked on studies of unemployed and homeless people, and caught the...
Beginning in the early 1930s, America suffered an economic crisis that lasted nearly a decade—the Great Depression. Until then, Dorothea Lange had been a successful portrait photographer.
Dorothea Lange helped create a “visual encyclopedia” of the Depression that fundamentally changed how Americans imagined hunger. Explore the map to discover how Lange documented the plight of rural communities across the country.
May 8, 2020 · Uncovering the woman behind Dorothea Lange’s famous Depression-era photograph.
Apr 2, 2014 · Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography.
May 22, 2024 · Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. Her best-known image is Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936).
Jun 20, 2018 · Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange is the picture that captured the misery of the Great Depression – the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world. As an exhibition of...
