About 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. Instead, Lange became known as one of the first of a new kind, a "documentary" photographer. Twenty-two of Lange's photographs produced for the FSA were included in John Steinbeck's The Harvest Gypsies when it was first published in 1936 in The San Francisco News. There, Lange became acquainted with other photographers and met an investor who backed her in establishing a successful portrait studio. Lange's work was distributed to newspapers across the country, and the poignant images became icons of the era.
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