Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She contracted polio at age seven which left her with a weakened right leg and a permanent limp. She was educated in photography at
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She contracted polio at age seven which left her with a weakened right leg and a permanent limp. She was educated in photography at Columbia University in New York City, in a class taught by Clarence H. White. With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange turned her camera lens from the studio to the street. Her studies of unemployed and homeless people captured the attention of local photographers and led to her employment with the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later called the Farm Security Administration (FSA). From 1935 to 1939, Dorothea Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten, particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers, to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, her poignant images became icons of the era. Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. In 1941, Lange was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for excellence in photography. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she gave up the prestigious award to record the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans to relocation camps, on assignment for the War Relocation Authority (WRA). Her images were so obviously critical that the Army impounded them. In 1952, Lange co-founded the photographic magazine Aperture. In the last two decades of her life, Lange's health was poor. She suffered from gastric problems, including bleeding ulcers, as well as post-polio syndrome. Lange died of esophageal cancer in 1965 at the age of 70.
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