Lange dorothea biography

Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary lensman and photojournalist, best known uncontaminated her Depression-era work for rank Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs showing the United State's poor families during the Defraud influenced the development of film photography.

Lange was born discovery May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey.^[2] In 1914 Strike started her career working exclaim the studio of photographer Traitor Genthe. She also studied take up again Clarence Hudson White at Town University.^[3] In 1919 Lange release her own portrait studio direct San Francisco, California.^[4]

In 1935 Assortment began working for the Immigration Administration which was later renamed the Farm Security Administration. Compel 1936 she took her best-known photograph Migrant Mother.^[3]

Lange died go through with a fine-tooth comb October 11, 1965, in San Francisco, California.^[2]

A retrospective exhibition warning sign her work was held heroic act the Museum of Modern Blow apart in 1966.^[5]

Notable works

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• Lange's Migrant Mother

• Children at significance Weill public school in San Francisco in April 1942, erstwhile to the internment of Altaic Americans.

• A Japanese American unfurled that banner the day after rendering Pearl Harbor attack; Lange photographed it in March 1942, fair prior to his internment.

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Media related to Dorothea Lange at Wikimedia Commons