Let's talk about Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange at work in California, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives. If you don't know Dorothea Lange by name, you know 'Migrant Mother'. It's an image that's practically synonymous with the Dust Bowl, a period of devastating drought in the North American plains that displaced hundreds of thousands. If you've opened an American history textbook or watched a Great Depression documentary on...