Photographer Dorothea Lange Media 175 Principals of Digital Photography Photographer Dorothea Lange Presented by Kari Larson January 17th, 2015

Dorothea Lange May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965 Dorothea Lange was a photojournalist during the Great Depression and is best known for her work during that time.

Photo by Dorothea Lange Lange began as a portrait photographer in San Francisco, she was shocked by the number of homeless people and took their pictures to draw attention to their predicament.

Her most prominent pictures were taken when she was employed by the Farm Security Administration. Photo by Dorothea Lange

Her most famous photograph is “Migrant Mother” “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet… There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.” She said of the experience. Photo by Dorothea Lange

To be good, photographs have to be full of the world. - Dorothea Lange Photo by Dorothea Lange To be good, photographs have to be full of the world. - Dorothea Lange

Photo by Dorothea Lange

She also took photos of the Japanese Interment during WWII Photo by Dorothea Lange

Photo by Dorothea Lange

Photo by Dorothea Lange Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. -Dorothea Lange

The End Photo by Dorothea Lange This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate. – Dorothea Lange

Resources http://www.masters-of-photography.com/L/lange/lange_articles2.html http://www.dodho.com/inspiring-quotes-dorothea-lange/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange http://www.masters-of-photography.com/L/lange/lange_articles1.html