Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, Calif. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. In 1942, Lange was commissioned to photograph the U.S. Government's imprisonment of Japanese Americans.

A US flag flies at the Manzanar War Relocation Center on July 3, 1942. Photo: Dorothea Lange/U.S. War Relocation Authority/Archive Photos/Getty Images.

Dorothea Lange GRANDFATHER AND GRANDSON, JAPANESE RELOCATION CAMP, MANZANAR, CALIFORNIA, 1942 26.7 x 33.7 cm. (10.5 x 13.3 in.) Medium photograph Size 26.7 x 33.7 cm. (10.5 x 13.3 in.) Description ...

Impounded Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment Edited by Linda Gordon and Gary Y. Okihiro W.W. Norton & Co.: 206 pp., $29.95 ...

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration Elizabeth Partridge, illus. by Lauren Tamaki. Chronicle, $21. ...

Smith is the author of "Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940." Our image of the Great Depression has been indelibly shaped by the photographs of Dorothea Lange: homeless men ...

Change in Total Sales, # of Lots Offered and Sold Photography Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart ...

In Dorothea Lange: Seeing People an exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the photographer shows the desolation of those days. Migrant Mother, her best-known picture, from 1936 ...

Linda Gordon, author of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, says Lange had the power to draw people out, but she herself was very private.

Dorothea Lange’s photographs of Japanese-Americans interned during World War 2 capture not only the oppression of a people but also their struggle to retain their dignity.

This was the caption Dorothea Lange wrote to go with her photograph of five displaced tenant farmers, looking dejected but calm in front of a house in Hardeman County, Tex., in 1937.