Dorothea Lange online materials

Dorothea Lange was a great photographer. She is probably best known for her photos from the Depression.

There are books available from the National Gallery and MOMA exhibitions linked to below. There’s also a DVD from PBS.

#ResistanceRootsDorothea Lange was born on this day in 1895 in Hoboken, N.J. Lange was a photographer who is best known for her powerful images of the human toll of the Great Depression. Her work also influenced the development of documentary photography. /1

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Dorothea Lange Words & Pictures (Museum of Modern Art Exhibition from 2020)

Dorothea Lange Biography with Photo Gallery

Dorothea Lange: Seeing People (National Gallery of Art Exhibition from 2023-2024)

Women Come to the Front Dorothea Lange

The Library of Congress had an exhibit about her and also has many of her Depression photos

This is her most famous photo:

Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection

Dorothea Lange’s once-censored photographs of Japanese Americans being forced out of their homes in the spring of 1942

The photos in the Instagram post above are from the National Archives. This group of pages list all of the Lange photographs in the Archives.

The woman in Lange’s most famous photograph