DOROTHEA  LANGE
(1895-1965)
She was born in Hobokan, New Jersey, USA.
During her childhood she contracted polio which crippled her right leg for life.
Her mother was a librarian and, everyday after school, she spent hours  in the library  with time enough  to study  photographs. 
Her first job was in a photography studio and,  a few years later,  she went  to San Francisco to  open her first portrait photography studio.
After her marriage she spent a few years photographing many of the people affected by the Great Depression. But without finding the balance between work and being the mother of two kids, the result was the marriage collapsing.
A few years later she began a new relationship  with Paul Taylor and both traveled a lot in America and she had the chance to photograph specially the rural life,  ethnic groups and workers uprooted by the war.
In 1941 she received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship award.
She was hired to document the evacuation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps follow the Pearl Harbor attack.
Dorothea Lange was the co-founder of the photography Magazine Aperture.

"a compassion eye",  1942

"Louisiana negress", 1937

"Manzanar"

"sharecroppers"

"travelling highway",  1938"

"an american  odissey"

"migratory cotton picker",  1940

"migrant mother"