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Dorothea Lange

DATES: May 26, 1895 - 1965

ABOUT HER
Dorothea Lange first became known for her work with migrant workers and farmworkers during the drought in the dust bowl. Her documentary style was clearly shown in such photos as "Migrant Mother," which has become an icon of the dust bowl migrant experience.

After Pearl Harbor, Dorothea Lange was hired by the War Relocation Agency to document the Japanese American prisoners-of-war camps. Her photographs showed how courageous and dignified the Japanese Americans were in spite of being held prisoners in their own country solely because of their race. Many of her photos were censored by her employer, the U.S. government.

Lange's work was not given much importance until 1972, when the Whitney Museum used her photographs in an exhibit about the Japanese internment.

New York Times critic A. D. Coleman called Lange's photographs "documents of such a high order that they convey the feelings of the victims as well as the facts of the crime."

QUOTE
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life, Elizabeth Partridge (Editor)
Photographing The Second Gold Rush, Charles Wollenberg and Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange and the Bay Area at War,1941-1945, Dorothea Lange, et al
The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, Dorothea Lange, et al

LINKS TO LEARN SO MUCH MORE
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html
http://www.museumca.org/lange.html


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