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Dorothea Lange's Moving Photographs of The Depression Era
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. Though she had never used or owned a camera, Lange was adamant she would become a photographer when she graduated high school in the early s.
Having studied photography at Columbia University in New York City, the photographer found herself settled in San Francisco and worked as a photo finisher at a photographic supply shop. Here she met an investor who made it possible for Lange to open her own portrait studio in the city, which supported her and her family for the next 15 years.
The onset of the Great Depression in the s caused Lange to turn her camera lens from the studio to the street. She embarked on studies of unemployed and homeless people, and caught the attention of the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), which went on to be known as the Farm Security Administration (FSA), and they employed her as a photographer in The depart
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Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until
Dorothea Lange—well known for her FSA photographs like Migrant Mother—was hired by the U.S. government to man a photographic record of the “evacuation” and “relocation” of Japanese-Americans in She was eager to take the kommission, despite being opposed to the effort, as she believed “a true record of the evacuation would be valuable in the future.”
The military commanders that reviewed her work realized that Lange’s contrary point of view was evident through her photographs, and seized them for the duration of World War II, even writing “Impounded” across some of the prints. The photos were quietly deposited into the National Archives, where they remained largely unseen until
I wrote more about the history of Lange’s photos and President Roosevelt’s Ex
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by Emily Yoshiwara
Photographer Dorothea Lange's work became famous during the Depression and after, symbolizing the human suffering and rural poverty of the era and pioneering a style known as "social documentary photography.". Lange visited Washington State in "Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One of Chris Adolph's younger children,"by Dorothea Lange, Click photograph to enlarge. (FSA-OWI fsa 8b)
(Go to part two of this series on Lange)
Dorothea Lange’s photographs of migrant farm workers and the rural poor are some of the most iconic images of the Great Depression’s impact on American society. Lange’s photographs do not just chronicle the poverty among farm workers, but also stand as testament to a federally funded effort to document and depict their situation. As crop prices fell over 50% during the Depression, thousands of workers and farming families were left without jobs.[1] The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was created as part of the N