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Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of Desolation

Lange's "Migrant Mother" is one of her most famous photographs. Dorothea Lange/Courtesy of the Library of Congress hide caption

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Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of Desolation

The photographer captured some of the most enduring images of the Great Depression. Linda Gordon, author of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, says Lange had the power to draw people out, but she herself was very private.

Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of Desolation

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Photographer Finds Kinship With A Black 'Homeplace'
Sarah Hoskins

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Photographer Finds Kinship With A Black 'Homeplace'

When Sarah Hoskins started taking photographs in the tiny towns around Lexington, Ky., she hoped to bring a historic part of America's post-Civil War past to life. Ten years later, she's become part of the community she came to observe.

Photographer Finds Kinship With A Black 'Homeplace'

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Color Sells: Nickolas Muray's Food Photography

Boy with raisin bread, photograph for the cover of McCall's Homemaking Magazine, ca. 1944 Nickolas Muray/Courtesy of the National Museum of American History Photographic History Collection hide caption

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Color Sells: Nickolas Muray's Food Photography

Today it seems like everyone is a food photographer. But that was not always the case. Nickolas Muray was a pioneer of color food photography, way back when the process was complicated.

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Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move
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Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move

A new exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., looks at the legacy of Eadweard Muybridge, whose sequential photographs of horses at a gallop -- their movements broken down frame by frame -- have become iconic.

Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move

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