The picture is best known as "Migrant Mother," a black-and-white photo taken in February or March 1936 by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson, then 32, and her children. Lange was traveling ...

Among these documentarians was photographer Dorothea Lange ... both the military and the WRA staff censored Lange's photos of internment camps like the one in Manzanar, California.

Her photos of the homeless and unemployed in ... they were seen by no one — including Lange herself — for more than 20 years. Dorothea Lange died of esophageal cancer in 1965.

The project began when he discovered a photo of his own family taken by famed documentary photographer Dorothea Lange. "The historic pictures were taken by Dorothea [Lange] who is one of my idols.

Dorothea Lange, born in 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey, was a seminal American documentary photographer and photojournalist. Best known for her poignant images during the Great Depression ...