Explore, through her granddaughter’s eyes, the life story of Dorothea
Lange, the photographer who captured the iconic image “Migrant
Mother.” Never-seen-before photos, film footage, interviews, family
memories, and journals reveal the artist who challenged America to know
itself.
Lange’s enduring images document five turbulent decades of American
history, including the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, World War II
Japanese American Internment camps, and early environmentalism. Yet few
know the story, struggles, and profound body of work of the woman
behind the camera. Award winning cinematographer Dyanna Taylor, Lange’s
granddaughter, directs and narrates this intimate documentary as it
explores Lange’s life, probes the nature of her muses—two great men and
the camera itself—and her uncompromising vision. Taylor, who learned to
see the visual world at her grandmother’s feet, weaves Lange’s
preparations for her career retrospective at New York’s MoMA into a
universal story of a woman’s struggle to live a creative life. Read more about the film.
