Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 21 Dorothea Lange Questions: |
Dorothea Lange
Photographer Dorothea Lange opened a portrait studio in
San Francisco in 1919. During the 1930s, she became
frustrated by the limitations of commercial photography and
committed herself to recording contemporary events. Deeply
moved by the breadlines of the homeless and unemployed, she
concentrated on photographing people affected by
the Great Depression. In 1936, she
began working for the FSA. Her
photograph Migrant Mother is
one of the classic images from this enormous pictorial
record of America in the 1930s.
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