Living New Deal · August 24, 2026
Poet Tess Taylor went into Dorothea Lange’s road notebooks from her Farm Security Administration years and retraced her routes across California. The result is Last West, a play in which Lange’s photographs of Depression America share the stage with the voices of the people she met.
Dorothea Lange, On the Road, 1936. Photo by Rondal Partridge for the Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
