Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange is featured in the exhibition Seeing People at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, on view from April 12, 2025, to February 15, 2026. This exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Art, showcases 100 of Lange’s iconic portraits that illuminate themes of economic hardship, migration, and racial injustice. It offers a powerful exploration of her empathetic approach to documentary photography, emphasizing her ability to capture the dignity and resilience of her subjects.

"Dorothea Lange: Seeing People" is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. through March 31, exhibiting 101 photographs from the Great Depression to the mid-1960s.

Photographs from the Margulies Collection by Dorothea Lange and the full range of Walker Evans' work, together forming a collective memory of life during the Great Depression, are on view in "The Bitter Years" exhibition at the Margulies Collection in 2022-23.

The New Woman of the 1920s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights the powerful expression of modernity by artists such as Dorothea Lange, Lillian Bassman, Dora Maar, Tina Modotti, and Lillian Bassman.

An exhibition of more than sixty extraordinary photographs at The Met Fifth Ave includes masterpieces by Paul Strand, Dora Maar, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, and other leading artists.

Poverty and racial marginalization, internment camps, and life during wartime - these are among the most famous themes documentary photographer Dorothea Lange chronicled in her...

From the depths of the Great Depression, the impulse to capture the distinctive character of the United States was felt by photographers, poets, filmmakers, and...

Two terrific shows that languish in darkened galleries at the Museum of Modern Art should not pass uncelebrated—or unvisited, to the extent that moma’s Web...

The first half of the 20th century was a time of extraordinary change in the field of photography. By 1940, the Museum of Modern Art...

Artist Sally Mann and MoMA photography curator Sarah Meister discuss Dorothea Lange's enduring images

Near the entrance to this exhibition of work by trailblazing twentieth-century documentary photographer Dorothea Lange we confront the image of a migratory cotton picker, whose...

John Szarkowski was about 13 when he saw an image by Dorothea Lange that “enormously impressed” him. After he had become the powerful director of...

For the entire second half of Dorothea Lange’s life, a quotation from the English philosopher Francis Bacon floated in her peripheral vision: “The contemplation of...

The Getty Museum's curatorial team has unearthed an array of treasures that have never been shown here before.

The first of two consecutive exhibitions that Pier 24 Photography will present on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Looking Back features photographers and subjects...

When you think of photographer Dorothea Lange, you inevitably visualize “Migrant Mother,” the 1936 portrait of a woman and children that has come to represent...

Featuring major works by world-renowned American photographer Dorothea Lange (1895, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1966, San Francisco, California), some of which have never been exhibited in...

An exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, "(un)expected families," explores how photographers have chosen to represent loved ones and the concept of family through an alternative lens.