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Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange was an American photographer most famous for her photography of agricultural workers and their migration during the Great Depression. Her most famous photograph is the iconic, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California , which endures as the defining image of the era. In she was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, and this allowed her to take a series of photographs of religious groups in the USA, such as those of the Amish people. From to she attended the New York Training School for Teachers and there decided to become a photographer, partly influenced by visits to the photographer Arnold Genthe Read More From to she attended a photography course run by Clarence H.

White at Columbia University, NY. Lange moved to San Francisco in , and in she set up a successful portrait studio where she took works such as Clayburgh Children, San Francisco.

In the late s she became dissatisfied with studio work and experimented with landscape and plant photography, although she found the results unsatisfactory. With the Stock Market crash of Lange decided to look for subjects outside her studio.

Turning to the effects of the economic decline she took photographs like General Strike, San Francisco. Later in she transferred to the Resettlement Administration, set up to deal with the problem of the migration of agricultural workers. She continued to work for this body, through its various transformations including its time as the Farm Security Administration , until In , in collaboration with Taylor, who provided the text, she published An American Exodus, of her portraits of migrant workers.

Illness prevented her working from to , after which she produced photographs of the Mormons and of rural life in Ireland for articles in Life in and Add a Custom Frame Artwork arrives expertly framed in a handcrafted black or white wooden frame, fitted with UV-blocking plexiglass. Mats are made-to-measure of white, archival, four-ply acid-free paper, custom cut to image. Includes hanging wires, protective backing, wall-friendly footers, and archival sleeve for Certificate of Authenticity and Artist Statement.

Ships within weeks to US addresses only. Drought Refugees Circa Map: "Origins of Migrants to California" Circa Toward Los Angeles, California March, Cars on the Road August Oklahoma family on the road page from mockup of An American Exodus August 12, Family Arizona, Bureau of Agricultural Economics Migrant People Circa Migratory cotton picker on highway near Merced, California May 1, Camped in the rain behind billboard: three families, fourteen children.

Coachella Valley - Mexican Laborers around Camp Bindlestiffs Migrant Single Men Circa The Road West, U. Family on the Road Atoka County, Oklahoma Homeless Family, Oklahoma June 16, Mid-Continent Mid-Continent, Oklahoma Midcontinent Bound for California August 12, Plantation Under On the Road - U.