Master Of Photography

Dorothea Lange studied at Columbia University in New York under Clarence H. White between 1917 and 1919, Dorothea Lange started out as an independent portrait In San Francisco. She decided to take pictures of  homeless people in the street to draw attention to their plight. She documented the bitter poverty of migrant workers and their families. In 1935 she joined the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her work did not only show the hopelessness and despair, but also the pride and dignity with which people endured their circumstances. The most famous and most frequently published photographs of the FSA project is Migrant Worker, the portrait of a Californian migrant worker with her three children. The way the mother looked in the picture described how hard working and worried she was. Sitting by her right side, one of the children which was hitting her face from the camera, seeking protection and care and an infant asleep on her exhausted mother.