Dorothea lange photography dust bowl

Sanora Babb wrote about a family devastated by the Dust Bowl, but she lost her shot at stardom when John Steinbeck beat her to the punch

Striking images taken by photographer Dorothea Lange show families living in tents and shacks as they wait to be returned to Oklahoma after arid storms decimated their prairie homeland.

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Dorothea Lange. Ditched, Stalled and Stranded, San Joaquin Valley, California. February 1936. Gelatin silver print, printed 1965. 11 7/8 × 10 5/16

As the national conversation around climate change heats up, LIFE.com offers rare photos from Oklahoma at the tail-end of the Dust Bowl.

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Dorothea Lange and her Graflex were there to record it. From portraits of displaced farmers to portraits of the unemployed men who on the city streets.

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As Dust Bowl refugees headed west across America, the lack of safe, clean camps to house migrant families became a national emergency. Lange’s photographs of people camped by the road or looking for work awoke public awareness and became powerful arguments for government assistance. Although the events she recorded were national in scale, it is the personal and human details that make Lange’s photographs so powerful. Under difficult conditions, she worked to connect on a personal level with…

The following is from "Beyond the Grave" written by Troy Taylor and published in 2001. In 1938, stories of a "killer ghost" began to be told in eastern Kentucky. Even though no one ever saw this malevolent apparition, it was said to have caused five very similar and unexplained deaths. In June of that year, a man named Carl Pruitt came home from work one night and found his wife in bed with another man. After her lover escaped by jumping out of a window, Pruitt strangled his wife with a…

Dorothea Lange. Strong Winds Blow in Western Ireland. 1954. Gelatin silver print, printed 1965. 10 7/8 × 8 7/16" (27.6 × 21.4 cm). Purchase. 787.1968. Photography

Photographer Dorothea Lange at Home, Berkeley, California 1955 by Todd Webb

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