Dorothea Lange
Watch this video, which describes how a powerful photograph by the American photographer Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), Migrant Mother, changed how Americans viewed the Great Depression.
Lange was best known for her work during the Depression era for the Farm Security Administration, which documented and humanized the hardships Americans experienced during this period.
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo California, 1936, printed later, gelatin silver print, 35.24 x 27.78 cm (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, PG.1997.2), a Seeing America video.
Source: Eve Schillo, Lacma and Steven Zucker, https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/american-art-to-wwii/american-photography-before-wwii/v/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother
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