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DAY 113 | FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS |
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965)
SHOWING WHAT WE DID NOT SEE
Dorothea Lange made photographic history with her Depression Era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), bringing the tragic circumstance of migrant workers, displaced farm families, and sharecroppers to the attention of the government and the nation at large.
For many years, it was her mission to follow the exodus of farm families as they left the Dust Bowl and headed west to find work. She and her husband, labor economist Paul Schuster Taylor, collaborated on this project that documented rural poverty and human suffering; he provided the text, ...
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