The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without
a camera.
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange
(May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best
known for her Depression-era
work for the Farm Security
Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences
of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary
photography.
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Migrant Mother - Photograph from Dorothea Lange, The Dust Bowl |