The piece starts off talking about what is arguably Dorothea
Lange's most recognizeable image, that of a California pea
picker Florence Owens Thompson. The image was taken while Lange
was employed by the Farm Security Administration in March, 1936.
One incredible piece of information I learned from the NPR piece
was that all of the images that Dorothea Lange took during her
work with the FSA became the proprety of the US Government. The
original images were accompanied by captions that she wrote for
each image, but they were not distributed with the images when
the FSA would make them available to news outlets. Not even the
titles of her images were preserved. Listen to the NPR piece
embedded below, or visit this link to read more about the new
book by Linda Gordon.