Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was born May 25, 895 and died October 11, 1965. When she was twelve her father "Henry Nutzhorn" abandoned her and her mother. That's why Lange's last name came to be Lange. Lange was educated in the art of photograghy in New York. After marrying Mayard Dixon in 1920 she stopped taking photo's inside the studio and started taking photos of the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. This led her to employment with the Farm Security Administration. She went around the country documenting the events that happened throughout the Great Depression. She has taken many great photograghs.