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06/13/2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Paul McCartney about his book of photographs from the time the Beatles first visited the United States.

05/29/2023

Dorothea Lange, the influential documentary photographer and photojournalist, was born on this day in 1895. Lange is most widely known for her Great Depression-era work documenting the realities of life for poor and oft-forgotten Americans, and bringing their experiences into public awareness. Her talent resulted in a Guggenheim Fellowship for excellence in photography in 1941 making her the first woman to receive the honor. Her decades of work greatly influenced generations of documentary photographers.

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange’s journey as a photographer began as a college student and then an informal apprentice in New York City. By 1918 she had moved to San Francisco and established a successful portrait studio, catering to upper class clients. However, a cultural shift changed her course and led to her lasting fame as a documentary photographer.

At the start of the Great Depression, Lange began to focus her work on the unemployed and homeless people on the streets in San Francisco. Her powerful black-and-white images led to a position with the Federal Resettlement Administration, later called the Farm Security Administration, highlighting the plights of sharecroppers, migrant workers and other members of agricultural communities. Her striking photography brought awareness and humanity to marginalized groups across the nation, including the Dust Bowl migrants of the 1930s and the Japanese-American internees during World War II.

For adults who would like to learn more about her life and legacy, we highly recommend the award-winning biography, "Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits," which also includes more than 100 of her iconic images, at https://www.amightygirl.com/dorothea-lange

She is also the subject of a fascinating historical fiction novel for adult readers: "Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America" at https://www.amightygirl.com/learning-to-see

To share Dorothea Lange's inspiring story with kids, it's told in two excellent picture books: "Dorothea Lange" for ages 5 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dorothea-lange-faces-of-depression) and "Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth," for ages 6 to 10 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dorothea-s-eyes)

There is also a picture book that tells the story of a family like the one featured in Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photo, "Ruby's Hope," for ages 5 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/ruby-s-hope

For Mighty Girl stories set during the Great Depression, we recommend "The Gardener" for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-gardener), "Out of the Dust" for ages 9 to 13 (https://www.amightygirl.com/out-of-the-dust), "Someplace to Call Home" for 10 to 13 (https://www.amightygirl.com/someplace-to-call-home), and "Echo Mountain" for ages 10 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/echo-mountain)

03/29/2023

This Women’s History Month, we’re spotlighting figures whose contributions have often gone unseen. Tonight, we look back at the work of Jennie Ross Cobb, the first known female Native American photographer, who captured personal images of her community.

03/28/2023

03/21/2023

02/19/2023

Photographer Stephen Dupont documents Ukraine’s haunted landscapes.

02/05/2023

A prisoner at Auschwitz and three other camps, he dealt with his trauma in semiabstract art that depicted crematories, ovens and chimneys.

01/28/2023

On most weekends, Tyre Nichols would head to the city park, train his camera on the sky and wait for the sun to set. “Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people,” he wrote on his website.

01/28/2023

Today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day & the anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, we remember those we lost & pledge to work even harder for those who have survived.

01/26/2023

This photo of Reuven and Gershon Fogel, the two boys in the foreground on the left, captures some of the last moments of their lives. As they waited in the woods, they seemed unaware that their next steps would take them to a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Decades later, Holocaust survivor Irene (Fogel) Weiss discovered her younger brothers in the photo and, with the help of a magnifying glass, identified her mother, Leah Mermelstein Fogel, seated beside them. The image was part of the Auschwitz Album, a collection of photos taken by a N**i photographer documenting the arrival of Jews from Hungary in the spring of 1944. A former Auschwitz prisoner, Lilly Jacob, found the album in a nightstand while she was recovering in an abandoned SS barracks at another camp, called Dora-Mittelbau, shortly after her liberation there.

For Irene, the album confirmed all of her worst memories.

"All this time, I began to feel it was some kind of nightmare," she said. The album “literally verified my experience."

The day this photo was taken was the last that Irene experienced with her family intact. Of her family of six, only Irene and her older sister, Serena, survived.

Tomorrow on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us live on Facebook at 9:30 a.m. ET to hear from Irene and to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

Photo: USHMM, courtesy of Yad Vashem

11/12/2022

11/10/2022

Joan Milligan shares historical visual resources ahead of Kristallnacht's 85th anniversary.

10/31/2022

10/26/2022

Kyle and Kelly Phelps are identical twin brothers, celebrated sculptors and art educators with work that's been featured in more than 200 national and international exhibitions.

10/24/2022