Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. Her best-known image is Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936). Learn more about Lange’s life and career.
Alfred Stieglitz art dealer, publisher, advocate for the Modernist movement in the arts, and, arguably, the most important photographer of his time. Stieglitz was the son of Edward Stieglitz, a German Jew who moved to the United States in 1849 and went on to make a comfortable fortune in the
In an age when women – and especially women of color – did not have many opportunities, let alone for a professional life of the mind, Belle da Costa Greene (1879-1950) served as librarian and curator for one of the most powerful men in the world, J. Pierpont Morgan, becoming the first director of what […]