The Great Depression of 1930s America and the Dust Bowl that devastated farming in the high plains of Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Texas are summoned up in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie's gravelly voice singing Dust Bowl Blues. Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California During the Depression Lange took photographs for the Farm Security Administration, one of the agencies established under Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal. Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, until Sept 2, 2018 http://blog.barbican.org.uk/2018/06/about-dorothea-lange-politics-of-seeing/ Paul S Taylor, Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Plains, ca. 1935 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California