(Dorothea Lange photos)
(daughter of German immigrants, began photographing in the 20's in San Francisco in a study of portraits. After traveling in the southwest with the first husband, painter Maynard Dixon, devoted himself to social and photos was among the first employees of the Farm Security Administration.
During the war, documented the Japan-American internment of citizens living in refugee camps inside the country after Pearl Harbor the conditions of women employed in war industries.
His pictures are characterized by a deep sensitivity and immediacy, they had a profound influence on the development of documentary photographs, his work is also inspired director John Ford and Steinbeck the writer for the movie "Grapes of Wrath"
Dorothea Lange's iconic personality of the "social photography" for years left on the door of his laboratory and the following emblematic words:
the contemplation of things as they are without REPLACEMENT OR 'imposture, OR WITHOUT ERROR' CONFUSION AND 'IN SE' MORE 'NOBLE all a invention.
(Francis Bacon)
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