Dorothea Lange standing atop her car with her camera, California, 1936

On the Road with Dorothea Lange: Staging an American Archive

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.

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