Lange dorothea biography of rory gilmore

During the Great Depression , Dorothea Lange photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Her photographs of migrant workers were often presented with captions featuring the words of the workers themselves. In , she received the Guggenheim Fellowship. One of the preeminent and pioneering documentary photographers of the 20th century, Lange was born Dorothea Nutzhorn on May 26, , in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Her father, Heinrich Nutzhorn, was a lawyer, and her mother, Johanna, stayed at home to raise Dorothea and her brother, Martin. When she was 7, Lange contracted polio, which left her right leg and foot noticeably weakened. Just before Lange reached her teen years, her parents divorced. Her parents were both strong advocates for her education, and exposure to creative works filled her childhood.

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She went on to study the art form at Columbia University, and then, over the next several years, cut her teeth as an apprentice, working for several different photographers, including Arnold Genthe, a leading portrait photographer. In , she also studied with Clarence Hudson White at his prestigious school of photography. By , Lange was living in San Francisco and soon running a successful portrait studio.

With the onslaught of the Great Depression in the s, she trained her camera on what she started to see in her own San Francisco neighborhoods: labor strikes and breadlines.