Photo Border Women's History

Dorothea Lange was born on May 26 1895 she studied photography at New York City's Columbia University prior to the First World War the stock market crashed in the fall at 1929 and plunged the country into a depression that lasted for a decade Lange was drawn to the plight of the unemployed and homeless venturing outside her studio to take her first documentary photograph in 1934 of men in a soup line with the caption white angel bread line her photographic studies of the homeless and unemployed caught the attention and local photographers and eventually led her to employment with the Farm Security Administration with the FSA she documented the conditions of sharecroppers migrant workers and displaced farmers Lange's photographs humanized the impacte the depression in the lives of everyday Americans breaking down the wall between viewer and reality her famous photo Migrant Mother is the