DORTHEA LANGE

EARLY LIFE

• Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken New Jersey.
• When Lange was 7 she was diagnosed with polio which weakened her
• left leg and foot. In Dorothea's early teen years her parents divorced
• and she took her mother's maiden name Lange.

EDUCATION

• After high school, Lange pursued photography as a profession.
• She studied at Columbia university and worked for several photographers
• such as Arnold Genthe, a leading portrait photographer.

PHOTOGRAPHY

• In 1918, Lange was running her own portrait studio I'm San Francisco.
• She married a muralist, Maynard Nixon and they had two sons
• together.

CHANGE OF FOCUS

• In the 1920s Lange traveled around the southwest photographing Native
• Americans. In the 1930s she took pictures of labor strikes and bread lines
• during the Great Depression.

DIVORCE

• In the early 1930s Lange divorced her husband and met Paul Taylor.
• Throughout the next five years the couple traveled together
• documenting rural hardship they a countered for the farm security administration.

REWARDS

• In 1940 Lange was the first women rewarded a Guggenheim Fallowing
• Americas entrance into World War II.

LATER WORK

• Lange co-founded a small publishing house that produced
• high end photography books.
• She took on assignment for life magazines traveling through Utah
• Ireland, and Death Valley.

1965

• Lange died from esophageal cancer in October of 1965.