Dorothea Lange
She was born on May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey. She got polio when she was seven years old. That made her have a limp. She went to Columbia University in New York to study photography. She wanted to go around the world and take pictures, getting money from the ones that she had sold, in 1918. She ended up in San Francisco because she had run out of money. There, she set up her own photography studio.
She married Maynard Dixon in 1920 and together they had two sons. In December 1935, she divorced him and married Paul Schuster Taylor. Dorothea photographed unemployed men who were in the streets of San Francisco. Her pictures were displayed to the public.
The federal Resettlement Administration or the Farm Security Administration (FSA) as it was later called gave her money for her photographs. This Administration wanted to show the public what was going on. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1941 for her great photos. During WWII, she documented the gathering of Japanese-Americans internment camps. She wanted to show people what was happening. She did some work for Life magazine as well. She died on October 11, 1965. A year after she had died, there was a show for her at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Some of her photographs were: Migrant Mother and White Angel Breadline.
I think that Dorothea was a good role model because she wanted to show everybody in America what was happening and that everyone was affected by the Great Depression. She was really good at what she did and took very good photos that help describe what went on during that period of time.
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother
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