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Dorothea Lange
Lange in 1936
Born
Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn

(1895-05-26)May 26, 1895
Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedOctober 11, 1965(1965-10-11) (aged 70)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Known forDocumentary photography, photojournalism
Notable work1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson, Migrant Mother
Spouse
    Maynard Dixon
    (m. 1920; div. 1935)
    Paul Schuster Taylor
    (m. 1935)
Children2
AwardsCalifornia Hall of Fame

Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) 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.[1]

  1. ^ Hudson, Berkley (2009). Sterling, Christopher H. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Journalism. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE. pp. 1060–67. ISBN 978-0-7619-2957-4.

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