Depression Era Images


 

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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.

 

 

 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html

 

 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html


NPR Story on Dorothea Lange: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92656801