Dorothea Lange s a key figure in the development of photography as a documentary art form. 2015 marks the 120th anniversary of Lange's birth and the 50th anniversary of her death, which should make ...

Crossroads General Store , circa 1938 The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor In 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange made headlines ...

NEW YORK — The woman in Dorothea Lange’s most famous photograph, often labeled simply “Migrant Mother,” is, among other things, rather beautiful. Her face may be weathered and lined with ...

There are many moments in Friday's "American Masters" documentary on PBS about Dorothea Lange that expand on the film's subtitle, "Grab a Hunk of Lightning." But one, in particular, stands out. It ...

This photograph with its distinguished provenance comes to auction for the first time. c. 1956 "Dorothea Lange at Lake Berryessa Store" Vintage gelatin silver print, signed and dated recto mount in ...

A sharecropper plants sweet potatoes with his 13-year-old daughter near Olive Hill, N.C., July 1939. "Her father hopes to send her to school," Lange noted. A family traveling between Dallas and ...

May 25, 1895 Dorothea is born in Hoboken, N.J., to Henry Martin Nutzhorn and Joan Lange Nutzhorn. 1902 Dorothea is disabled by polio . She walks with a limp the rest of her life ...

Dorothea Lange’s stark photos for the federal government documented 20th century U.S. history. A National Gallery exhibit shows how they shaped public narratives.

Photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her intimate portraits of Depression-era migrant farmworkers, but a new book shows how her life's work spans decades and continents.