Dorothea Lange was born on May 28th,1895, in Hoboken, NJ. She died on October 11th, 1965 in San Franciso. She was married to Maynard Dixson, a painter, form 1920 to 1935. After that, she married Paul Schuster Taylor from 1935 to the time she died. Her parents were Joanna (Joan) Caroline Lange and Hainrich (Henry) Martion Nutzhorn, who divorced before Dorothea reached her teen years. She blamed the separation on her father and ended up dropping her surname (Nutzhorn) and changed it to her mothers maiden name, Lange.
When she was 7, Dorothea was diagnosed with polio. Because of her condition, her right foot and leg were both permanently weakened. Although she recovered, she walked with a limp for the rest of her life. She didn't see her polio as a curse, but a blessing.
Her parents both cared deeply of her education. Throughout her youth, they exposed her to the arts. Even though she wasn't that great in school, she decided to go to Columbia University after graduating high school to study the art of photography.
"Migrant Mother." Dorothea was mostly famous for the pictures she took during The Great Depression. This is probably her most famous picture. The woman in this picture was Florence Owens Thompson. She was the mother of seven children.
"Daughter of Tennessee Coal Miner."
"Children of Oklahoma Drought."
Some of her other pictures:
I dont think this was the original picture, but she took this picture of Albert Einstein.
"Country Store on a Dirt Road."
I like Dorothea's work during The Great Depression because it makes you curious about what these people are going through. She even puts a black and white filter on the pictures to add to the kind of sadness that the pictures were giving off. I also like her other images because they just seem kind of playful.
