Dorothea Lange: Seeing People at the National Gallery of Art

"Dorothea Lange: Seeing People" is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. through March 31. The exhibition features 101 photographs that show an intimate connection of everyday people with recognizable chapters of history, from the Great Depression through the 1960s, with a particular emphasis on Lange's attention to social issues such as economic disparity, migration, poverty, and racism. Among the works on view are portraits of Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico from the 1920s and early 1930s; later depictions of striking laborers, migrant farmworkers, rural African Americans during the Jim Crow era, Japanese Americans denied their civil rights during World War II, and postwar baby boomers; and portraits of people in Ireland, Korea, Vietnam, Egypt, and Venezuela that Lange made in the decade before her death in 1965.