Dorothea Lange

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf documentary photographer
human
photographer
photojournalist
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
birthName Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn
burialPlace Oakland
surface form: 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 Resettlement Administration
surface form: 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
Farm Security Administration photographers
surface form: Great Depression photography

humanizing images of displaced and impoverished people
movement documentary photography
Social realism
surface form: social realism
name Dorothea Lange self-link
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
surface form: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
placeOfDeath San Francisco, California, United States of America
surface form: San Francisco, California, United States
religion Lutheranism
residence Berkeley
surface form: Berkeley, California, United States

San Francisco
surface form: San Francisco, California, United States
sexOrGender female
spouse Maynard Dixon
Paul Schuster Taylor
workLocation Oakland
surface form: Oakland, California, United States

San Francisco
surface form: San Francisco, California, United States

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Farm Security Administration photographers notableWork Dorothea Lange
this entity surface form: Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
Resettlement Administration employer Dorothea Lange
Roy Stryker notableStudentOrColleague Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange name Dorothea Lange self-link
Carl Corey influencedBy Dorothea Lange
Lange hasNotableBearer Dorothea Lange
Amon Carter Museum of American Art hasCollection Dorothea Lange
this entity surface form: Dorothea Lange photographs
W. Eugene Smith influencedBy Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother creator Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother photographer Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother notableWorkOf Dorothea Lange
White Angel Breadline creator Dorothea Lange
White Angel Breadline author Dorothea Lange
White Angel Breadline partOf Dorothea Lange
this entity surface form: Dorothea Lange’s Great Depression work
Ditched, Stalled and Stranded creator Dorothea Lange
Ditched, Stalled and Stranded author Dorothea Lange
Toward Los Angeles, California creator Dorothea Lange
Maynard Dixon spouse Dorothea Lange
Paul Schuster Taylor hasCollaborator Dorothea Lange
Paul Schuster Taylor spouse Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration employs Dorothea Lange