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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965) was active/lived in California, New Jersey.  Dorothea Lange is known for Documentary social realist photography.

Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895 and studied photography in New York City before the First World War.  In 1919, she moved to San Francisco, where she earned her living as a portrait photographer for more than a decade. During the Depression's early years Lange's interest in social issues grew and she began to photograph the city's dispossessed.

A 1934 exhibition of these photographs introduced her to Paul Taylor, an associate professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, and in February 1935 the couple together documented migrant farm workers in Nipomo and the Imperial Valley for the California State Emergency Relief Administration.

Copies of the reports Lange and Taylor produced reached Roy Stryker, who offered Lange a job with the Resettlement Administration in August 1935. Unlike the agency's other photographers, Lange did not move to Washington but used her Berkeley home as a base of operations. She and Taylor were ma   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16664 characters.]  Artist bio

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