Dorothea Lange was a documentary photographer whose work greatly endorsed and influenced during the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, she began to document unemployed men who wandered the street of San Francisco. These photographs also led to a commission in 1935 from the federal Resettlement Administration, later called the FSA (Farm Security Administration). With her unique style of photography and dynamic compositions, she produced starling photographs of her subjects, which directs viewers’ attention towards the subject. In 1941, Lange was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for achievement in photography. She also documented the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast on assignment for the War Relocation Authority (WRA). Lange also taught fine art photography at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA). In 1952, she co-founded the photography magazine Aperture. Dorothea Lange died of esophageal cancer at the age of seventy. Three months later, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted a retrospective of her work, which Lange herself had helped to curate. In honor of the great photographer, Bygonely has compiled a list of some of the tremendous photographs taken by Dorothea Lange.
50+ Pics That Capture American Families From 1930s-1950s by Dorothea Lange
