Dorothea Lange
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican photojournalist (1895-1965)
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Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.
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Lange in 1936 holding a Graflex 4×5 camera atop a Ford Model 40 in California, photographed by her assistant Rondal Partridge
Lange's iconic 1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson, Migrant Mother
"Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" (1937)
Children at the Weill public school in San Francisco recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag in April 1942, prior to the internment of Japanese Americans.
Grandfather and grandson at Manzanar Relocation Center
Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note social security number tattooed on his arm. Oregon.Awards 4
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1895 to 1965 · aged 70
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