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 ...

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.

18.4 x 19.1 cm. (7.2 x 7.5 in.) John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 23 John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p.

On a raw, soggy day in March 1936, Dorothea Lange was driving home ... The story the News ran about them featured Lange’s pictures; UPI picked it up, and within days the federal government ...

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 ...