Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. Her best-known image is Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936). Learn more about Lange’s life and career.
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Even a passing glance at documentary materials from the 1930s the bread lines, the work camps, the images of chains of misery as migrants fled the Dust Bowl to find employment in the West ought to throw cold water on this theory. One photographer, Dorothea Lange, was responsible for the gravest of those images, bridging the gap between individual experience and national story.
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