Dorothea Lange

 American influential  documentary photographer that was best known for working for the FSA. 

Dorothea lange was a photographer who did portraits of farmers and also unemployed durning the great depression. Her photographs of migrant workers were often presented with captions featuring the words of the workers themselves.Her career really took off when she her self had her first exhibit with her work. It was in 1934 and it showed the world what a skilled worker and artist she truly was. Fallowing her accomplishments, in  1940, she received the Guggenheim Fellowship. Which is an award that shows how much hard work and accomplishments. Dorothea got polio, Which made her legs weakened and it made her more appreciated as more of a inspiration. A lot of fallow civilians looked up to her in a better way than she could have ever thought.Later in her life she realized what she had accomplished and her illness never stopped her. Her parents divorced in her teens years and she stated to blame her problems on her father. As you could tell she then was living with her mother and had little contact with her father. She took her mothers maiden name so that she didn't have as much of a connection with her father as a whole. Her strong educational background really stud out. He parents gave her much more education to the life story of Dorothea Lange. By 1918, Lange was lived in San Francisco and opened up her own studio. Her husband, Maynard Dixon, Had children with. They lived together and had a happier ending than she could have ever imagined..