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 ...
Poet Tess Taylor’s immersive production bring Lange’s images to life, bridging the gap between the Great Depression and today ...
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.
Migrant Woman (1936) might be Dorothea Lange’s most iconic work, but her photographs on assignment documenting Japanese American internment during World War II were so powerful that the U.S.
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 ...
We all struggle to see other people. Distraction, fear, prejudice and apathy blind us. But every so often, someone brings strangers into sharper focus, and we are able to really see them. In her new ...
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.
Sunday the 26th of May marks the 123rd birthday of documentary photographer, Dorothea Lange. With 2019 already her highest-earning year at auction, we look at the works behind the boom, and look ...
NEW YORK — There’s this somewhat rancid tendency (rancid because so often self-serving) to equate art and heroism. Yes, many artists suffer, and, yes, many artists do good and worthy things. But there ...
This collection of 100 stark pieces of Lange's work captures the lives of the hard-pressed from dustbowl farmers right out of The Grapes of Wrath to photos of Ireland and Egypt. The text also ...
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.