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Even a passing glance at documentary materials from the 1930s — the bread lines, the work camps, the images of chains of misery as migrants fled the Dust Bowl to find employment in the West — ought to throw cold water on this theory. One photographer, Dorothea Lange, was responsible for the gravest of those images, bridging the gap between individual experience and national story.
Featuring more than 100 photographs, the National Gallery of Art spotlights the lifelong portrait artist Dorothea Lange through March 31.
A new exhibition explores the work of legendary photographer Dorothea Lange, who captured some of the most striking images ever shot of American poverty, hardship and resilience.
All photos by Dorothea Lange; all gifts of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, National Gallery of Art, Washington Dorothea Lange’s pictures show people ...
Plus, the appointment of the new Venice Biennale president sparks a political row, and a tender portrait by Dorothea Lange