History repeating: Dorothea Lange’s century-old photographs—depicting real people experiencing poverty and racism—still resonate today

History repeating: Dorothea Lange’s century-old photographs—depicting real people experiencing poverty and racism—still resonate today

What I saw at the museum is what I see on the news.   Inside the Nevada Museum of Art, three black-and-white photographs, taken in 1942 by documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, are lined up in a row on the wall. In the first one, Japanese Americans are huddled in a dense mass on a San Francisco street as police stand guard. They are waiting to be relocated to prison camps under order of the U.S. military. In another photo, a man at an internm…