DESCRIPTION: In 1939, Dorothea Lange focused increasingly on agricultural labor in relation to “industrialized agriculture,” which she saw as a “spreading pattern.” She photographed California’s newly built highways like US 99 and recorded roadside motels and gas stations, which were still novel. Now six-and eight-lane freeways have replaced the “modern” three-lane highways of Lange’s day, and they channel an enormous exodus of city dwellers to new communities on former farmland. Today the vast corporate farms Lange observed seem to be the norm, and the working conditions of migrant farm workers have changed relatively little since 1939.