Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange, born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895, began studying photography in New York City. She moved to San Francisco in 1919, where she worked as a portrait photographer for for than 10 years. During the Depression Lange took to the streets and photographed the cities desolation. She brought the hardships for the farmers, migrant workers and families dealing with the depression to the public. Lange's best-known picture is titled "Migrant Mother." Lange also traveled to the Japanese internment camps, showing the similarities and struggles that the americans had put its own citizens through. In 1952, Lange co-founded the photographic magazine Aperture.
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