DorotheaLange

Dorothea Lange was born May 25, 1895. She grew up in Haboken, New Jersey. She greatly influenced the creation of documentary photography. Her studies of unemployed and homeless people captured the attention of local photographers and led to her employment with the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later called the Farm Security Administration (FSA). During her work for the RA/FSA, she would bring attention to displaced farm families and migrant workers. Her motivation/inspiration for work was mostly the Depression era and homeless/unemployed/poor people. Her most famous photograph is the "Migrant Worker" taken in 1936. During the later part of her life, she would move to San Francisco. In the 1940's she would document the Japanese-American camps. She would become the first woman to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. She died October 11, 1965 in San Fracisco.

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