Dorothea Lange opened a portrait studio in 1918, but gave that up to work for the Farm Security Administration where she created her best work, photographing the hardships of the Great Depression. From 1935- 1939 Dorothea Lange used her photographs to bring light to the affliction of displaced farm families, sharecroppers, and migrant workers. Lange also photographed the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2, but because these images were so highly critical, they were impounded by the Army and unable to be seen until years later.
"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate."
--Dorothea Lange
Towards Los Angeles, California, March 1937
Migratory Mexican Field Worker's Home in the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field
(Imperial Valley, California March 1937)
Between Weedpatch and Lamont, Kern County, California. Children living in camp.
(April 20, 1940)
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