Migrant Woman (1936) might be Dorothea Lange’s most iconic work, but her photographs on assignment documenting Japanese American internment during World War II were so powerful that the U.S.

Hardship and despair poured from the photograph. A woman, her face burdened and beset by worry, stares off into the distance. On either side of her, children bury their faces into her shoulder.

Dorothea Lange, “White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco” (1933), gelatin silver print, 10 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Albert M. Bender In the midst of the Great ...

Migration is global these days. In this country, it echoes the desolation of the 1930s Depression, and the Dust Bowl, when thousands of Americans left home to look for work somewhere ... anywhere. In ...

New collections by Gordon Parks, Platon, Peter van Agtmael and Myriam Boulos reveal when you need to tell as well as show. By Arthur Lubow The 900 items from his Atlanta home include blue-chip art by ...