In today's global migrant crisis, echoes of Dorothea Lange's American photos
Nearly 100 years ago, Lange chronicled the destitution and desperation of The Great Depression. An exhibition of her work at the National Gallery of Art speaks to the present day migrant crisis.
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 an exhibition at the National Gallery in her best-known picture, from 1936, is a stark reminder of the times
