Most likely, you’ve heard of Pablo Picasso, Barbra Streisand, and Marilyn Monroe, all very famous artists in many different ways. Dorothea Lange is someone who went down in history as another artist, one who caught the eyes of many through her love and passion for...
Dorothea Lange was most known for her emotionally compelling portraits during depression era America. She grew up in a home that encouraged the perusal of creative arts, so after high school she went on to study photography at Columbia University. Her first experience in photography...
Migrant Mother In my mind, Dorothea Lange will always be identified with this image. I first saw it watching a documentary on the Great Depression in my sophomore History class. The impact it made was so strong that ever since that first view I can...
People always say photographs can help keep the important moments in their lives alive, or that every picture has a story to it. In our history books, photos show and tell a story of the past. In nineteen-thirty-six, at a camp for seasonal agricultural workers...
During the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s, hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans moved westward in a desperate attempt to find work. These “people in flight from the terror behind,” as John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath poignantly describes, were...
