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media type="youtube" key="pgR2Buke5MQ" height="344" width="425" Dorothea Lange’s Photography By: Kelly

Dorothea Lange took powerful pictures of Americans struggling to show people what was happening during the great Depression.

Dorothea Lange was born May 26, 1895, and died in October 11, 1965. She lived in New York City. When she turned seven years old, she got Polio that made her limp. Her father abandoned her family when she was 12 years old. She lived through the Great Depression, married a man called Maynard Dixon, divorced him, and married another man called Paul Taylor.

Dorothea Lange took pictures of a lot of things. She took most pictures of sad things through the Great Depression. On her way home from school, she saw poor people, which was when she started to want to do photography. She took pictures of emotional, physical, and caring pictures. She took mostly all of them during the Great Depression or World War 2; Families, people working in fields, and poor conditions of migrant workers who were traveling to California because of the Great Depression. She also took pictures of men getting registered to go into the army. She saw a lot of hurt children, people playing softball games, starving people, homeless people, and New York City. People would stand outside of her studio, getting fired from work, or people waiting in the bread line or asking for free food. Those pictures were to show what a problem the Great Depression was.

Dorothea Lange took a lot of great pictures, but here are some of her best pictures; “Drought Refuges form Oklahoma”, “Damaged child”, “Man Beside Wheelbarrow”, (untitled) “Foot”, and “Lower East Side of New York City”.