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Dorothea Lange

“This is what we did. How could this happen? How could we?” -Dorothea Lange The above quote captures Dorothea Lange’s influential career as a photographer in a few sentences. Yet, Lange’s photographs capture the turmoil of Americans lasting her entire lifetime. Through her camera Lange documented the Great Depression, the instability of the Dust Bowl migrants, and the inhumanity of Japanese-American internment camps and was able to bring to public’s attention the need for change. (Authors and Artists, para.1). Lange’s style of photography was an important influence for the development of photojournalism, social documentary photography, and overcoming a male dominated field (Contemporary Heroes, para.3).

Migrant Mother Mended Stockings