Dorothea Lange(1895-1965)
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Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Educated at Columbia University, learned photography in New York, moved
to San Francisco, and with the onset of the the Great Depression,
became one of the most famous and influential documentary
photographers, best known for her Farm Security Administration
photographs of the migrant farm workers in California. One of those
photographs, known as "Migrant Mother" is perhaps the most iconic
photograph of that era. During World War II she documented the
internment of Japanese Americans. In the 1940s she taught at the
California School of Fine Arts. In 1952 she co-founded the photo
magazine, "Aperture."
