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Lange, Dorothea

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Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965)

US photographer. She was hired in 1935 by the federal Farm Security Administration to document the westward migration of farm families from the Dust Bowl of the southern central USA. Her photographs, characterized by a gritty realism, were widely exhibited and subsequently published as An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion (1939).

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange attended a teachers' college before receiving professional training in photography from Clarence White in New York. She established a private studio in San Francisco.



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