Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depressionera work for the Farm Security Administration . Langes photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.

Lange graduated from the Wadleigh High School for Girls and was educated in photography at Columbia University in New York City, in a class taught by Clarence H. White. She was informally apprenticed to several New York photography studios, including that of the famed Arnold Genthe. In 1918, she left New York with a female friend to travel the world, but was forced to end the trip in San Francisco due to a robbery and settled there, working as a photo finisher. By the following year she had opened a successful portrait studio. She lived across the bay in Berkeley for the rest of her life. In 1920, she married the noted western painter Maynard Dixon, with whom she had two sons, Daniel, born in 1925, and John, born in 1930.

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