Dorothea Lange

A Synopsis of Six Photographers

Changed her last name to Lange after her parents divorced

Married twiceHad two sons with her first husbandDied from esophageal cancer in October 1965Had polio at age seven, damaged her right

leg and foot forever

Quick Facts

Native AmericansDust BowlJapanese-American campsWorking minoritiesThe Great Depression

Bread linesLabor strikes

Subjects of photography

Iconic images, that captured hardships most Americans were facing during the Great Depression.

Migrant Mother and Migratory Cotton Worker

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First woman to win Guggenheim fellowshipDorothea Lange did not receive the outcry she wanted from the public for her pictures when she originally published them, but over time her pictures have received the deeper meaning they deserve.

Accolades

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

-Dorothea Lange