Great Black and White Photogrophers Part. 2

Dorothea Lange

Lange was born May 26 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Growing up she was made fun of because she contracted polio, and was walking with a limp, even her mother acted ashamed of her crippled daughter. Then where she was twelve her father left her and her mother, because of that they moved into a house in Sophie Lange, their her maternal grandmother, and great aunt was. Her mother took a job as a Liberian, they had to take long walks there so that's when Dorothea noticed all the visual imagery and decided to take pictures. Later on Dorothea moved uptown and  got a job with Arnold G. as a Photographer. Their she learned how set up a camera and lights. She then grew up and took her mother's maiden name so she could forget her father. Then the government hired her to document the effects of depression, the pain from her childhood gave a sense of what suffering meant, she was able to see the despair all around her. Even though she made her wealth mostly from taking pictures from famous people but would rather take pictures of the real human condition.In October 11, 1965 Dorothea Lange died.

Migrant Mother, 1936

Japanese boy awaiting evacuation, June 1942