Dorothea Lange

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documentary photographer human photographer photojournalist

Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer best known for her powerful images of the Great Depression that humanized the plight of displaced and impoverished people.

Aliases (2)

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	documentary photographer → human → photographer → photojournalist →
awardReceived	Guggenheim Fellowship →
birthName	Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn →
burialPlace	Oakland, California, United States →
causeOfDeath	esophageal cancer →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1895-05-26 →
dateOfDeath	1965-10-11 →
educatedAt	Clarence H. White School of Photography → Columbia University →
employer	Farm Security Administration → Office of War Information → War Relocation Authority →
ethnicGroup	German American →
familyName	Lange →
fieldOfWork	documentary photography → photojournalism → social documentary →
givenName	Dorothea →
hasPartiallyLostUseOf	right leg →
influenced	American documentary photography → social documentary photographers →
influencedBy	Jacob Riis → Lewis Hine →
knownFor	Farm Security Administration photographs → Great Depression photography → humanizing images of displaced and impoverished people →
movement	documentary photography → social realism →
name	Dorothea Lange →
notableEvent	contracted polio in childhood →
notableWork	Ditched, Stalled and Stranded → Japanese American internment photographs → Migrant Mother → Toward Los Angeles, California → White Angel Breadline →
occupation	documentary photographer → photographer → photojournalist →
placeOfBirth	Hoboken, New Jersey, United States →
placeOfDeath	San Francisco, California, United States →
religion	Lutheranism →
residence	Berkeley, California, United States → San Francisco, California, United States →
sexOrGender	female →
spouse	Maynard Dixon → Paul Schuster Taylor →
workLocation	Oakland, California, United States → San Francisco, California, United States →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Resettlement Administration →	employer
Amon Carter Museum of American Art ("Dorothea Lange photographs") →	hasCollection
Lange →	hasNotableBearer
Farm Security Administration photographers →	hasPart
Carl Corey →	influencedBy
Dorothea Lange →	name
Roy Stryker →	notableStudentOrColleague
Farm Security Administration photographers ("Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange") →	notableWork