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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.
May 8, 2020 · Uncovering the woman behind Dorothea Lange’s famous Depression-era photograph.
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).
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.
For many, Lange’s Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California is the single most recognizable image from the Great Depression, epitomizing the desperate circumstances many found themselves in during that period.
Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
