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Childhood and Early Life
EARLY WORK / PERSONAL WORK
Dorothea Lange is best known for emotionally charged photographs of people in crisis. Whether she was capturing the effects of the Great Depression or documenting racial injustice, her pictures stir empathy, inviting us to connect with her subjects on a direct human level.
Lange brought the same searching and empathetic eye to her portraiture and personal photography. Though not as we
Dorothea Lange is best known for emotionally charged photographs of people in crisis. Whether she was capturing the effects of the Great Depression or documenting racial injustice, her pictures stir empathy, inviting us to connect with her subjects on a direct human level.
Lange brought the same searching and empathetic eye to her portraiture and personal photography. Though not as well known as her social documentary work, her archive is rich with such images that illuminate the essence of her art.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable, but when the great photographs are produced, it will be down that road. I have only touched it, just touched it.
