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[[Image:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Dorothea Lange in 1936; photographer: Paul S. Taylor]]
'''Dorothea Lange''' ([[May 26]], [[1895]] – [[October 11]], [[1965]]) was an influential documentary [[photographer]]. Lange is best known for her Depression-era work for the [[Farm Security Administration]] (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.
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According to the Oakland Museum, repository for most of Lange's work, it has been estimated that of the approximately 13,000 existing photographs taken for the federal government, Lange made over 700. According to Oakland Museum archivists, "because of the political nature of her relocation photography, she was required to turn over to the WRA all of her negatives, prints, and undeveloped film; thus, very little of this material is contained within the museum's archive." Following the end of the war, a complete file of Lange's WRA negatives and prints was placed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., with a duplicate set of prints placed at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley.
Lange's first husband was noted Western Painter [[Maynard Dixon]]. Her second husband was [[Paul Schuster Taylor]], a social scientist, who collaborated with her on her social documentations. He also took the well-known photographs showing her on top of a truck with her camera.
In [[1952]] Lange was one of the founders of ''[[Aperture (magazine)|Aperture]]''.
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