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Dorothea Lange: Capturing the Human Condition Through Words and Pictures It is hard to picture Dorothea Lange’s iconic photographs hanging on the walls of darkened exhibition galleries inside New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, but that is precisely what is happening right now. The exhibition, “ Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures ,” opened in mid-February, but was promptly closed less than a month later because of the coronavirus pandemic. It strikes me as ironic that the works of a photographer known for portraying a deeply disrupted America, a nation experiencing one of its greatest economic fallouts, is out of sight. In light of current events, this might be a good time to remember how America overcame a major collective crisis decades ago - and also recall the lessons we have not learned since then. Had it not been for Sally Meister, curator of MoMA’s Department of Photography, and her colleagues, Lange’s words and pictures would still be in the dark. Once MoMA was temp
