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Dorothea Lange
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American photojournalist (1895-1965)
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Dorothea Lange was an American journalist, photojournalist, photographer, and documentarian. Born in Hoboken, she was educated at Columbia University and worked for the Farm Security Administration, the War Relocation Authority, and the San Francisco Art Institute. She spoke English and Spanish. Lange was married to Maynard Dixon and Paul Schuster Taylor.
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the California Hall of Fame. Lange suffered from poliomyelitis. She died of esophageal cancer in San Francisco in 1965. Her written works include *River of Blood* and *Dorothea Lange looks at the American country woman*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 19
Top works
- River of Blood
- Dorothea Lange, eloquent witness
- Sky
- Das Christusdrama im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
- Dorothea Lange looks at the American country woman;
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hoboken
- Place of death
- San Francisco
- Spouse
- Paul Schuster Taylor
- Occupation
- artist
- Employer
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
- Field of work
- photography
- Genre
- portrait
- Movement
- social realism
- Image
- Dorothea Lange 1936 portrait.jpg
- Work location
- San Francisco
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- Commons gallery
- Dorothea Lange
- Commons category
- Dorothea Lange
- date of death
- 1965-00-00
- date of birth
- 1895-05-26
- medical condition
- poliomyelitis
- Commons Creator page
- Dorothea Lange
- cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- contributed to creative work
- The Plow That Broke the Plains
- has works in the collection
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
- ethnic group
- German Americans
- work available at URL
- www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/feature/dorothea-lange/beruehmte-fotografinnen
- birth name
- Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn
- pseudonym
- Taylor, Paul Schuster, Mrs
- name in native language
- Dorothea Lange
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Encyclopedic overview
Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.
Early life
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