Dorothea Lange: The Great Depression - 100+ Photographic Reproductions

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DOROTHEA LANGE: THE GREAT DEPRESSION contains 100+ Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration Photographic Reproductions of migrant workers, displaced farm families and sharecroppers with captioned titles,date and mini-biography.

BORN: May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
DIED: October 11, 1965 in San Francisco, California.

MEDIUM: American Social Realist Photography

INTERESTING FACTS:

§ Lange studied photography under Clarence H. White at Columbia University in New York City. She also apprenticed under several New York photographers, including famed Arnold Genthe.
§ In 1919, she moved to San Francisco and opened a successful portrait studio that earned her a living for over ten years.
§ In the early 1930s, Lange turned her attention to the plight of those dispossessed by the Great Depression.
§ From 1935-39, Lange worked for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration documenting displaced farm families, sharecroppers and migrant workers.
§ Lange’s picture titled “Migrant Mother,” became the most iconic photograph of the Great Depression.

NOTABLE WORKS:
Migrant Mother, Farm Woman Stockton California, Once a Missouri Farmer, White Angel Breadline.