Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Educated at Columbia University, learned photography in New York, moved to San Francisco, and with the onset of the the Great Depression, became one of the most famous and influential documentary photographers, best known for her Farm Security Administration photographs of the migrant farm workers in California. One of those photographs, known as "Migrant Mother" is perhaps the most iconic photograph of that era. During World War II she documented the internment of Japanese Americans. In the 1940s she taught at the California School of Fine Arts. In 1952 she co-founded the photo magazine, "Aperture."