Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.
Background
- Born in
- Hoboken
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityWadleigh High School for Girls
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 National Women's Hall of Fame🏆 California Hall of Fame🏆 New Jersey Hall of Fame
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Trending topics shown first"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it."
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Timeline
1895
Born
Birth1965
Died
Death
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