Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange had a favorite saying: "A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera." Lange's iconic photograph of Florence Owens Thompson, often referred to as ...

When the poet Tess Taylor moved back to El Cerrito after 15 years on the East Coast, she returned to a hometown she had “never really loved” in her youth. But this time, it was a different place, and ...

The most famous photo ever created in San Luis Obispo County is “Migrant Mother.” The image by Dorothea Lange is of a woman under lean-to tent with her children Norma, Katherine and Ruby. A public ...

Dorothea Lange, “White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco” (1933), gelatin silver print, 10 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Albert M. Bender In the midst of the Great ...

On a cool morning in the spring of 1936, a photographer working for the Resettlement Association stopped in southern San Luis Obispo County, searching for her next photo. While there, she stumbled ...

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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.

The Library of Congress has an incredible digitized archive of Depression-era photographs, taken between 1935 and 1945 on behalf of the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War ...

The career of Dorothea Lange, the influential photographer who created some of the most iconic bodies of work of the 20th century, took a substantially different turn on a fateful day in 1933, when ...