Thursday, March 10, 2011

Dorothea Lange


May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965

Noted for her photojournalism work in the Depression era for the Farm Security Administration

Migrant mother

Young girl, migratory worker

Migratory cotton picker

She covered the rounding up of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor and her photographs were so obviously critical that the Army impounded them.
Lange was inducted in the California Hall of Fame in 2008, announced by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. 

Rating: *****
She does a great job of showing how devestating the Depression was on working families, and that sadness really shows through her work.

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