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1. IMAGES The photography of Dorothea Lange

2. Photographer Dorothea Lange

3. DOROTHEA LANGE • Born May 26, 1895 • Died October 11, 1965 • Photographer http://www.dorothealange.com

4. PHOTOGRAPHY • Before television, was used to document important historical events. • People from one area could view events that occurred in other areas of the country. • Became more than an expression of art.

5. Lange and the Great Depression • Lange was asked to document the poor conditions of the migrant workers • Large numbers of workers traveled to California to find work • Workers toiled long hours in the fields • Many were forced to lived in squalid conditions with children

6. Lange was able to capture the emotional and physical toll that the depression took on human beings across the country.

7. Migrant Mother

8. Another photo of the "migrant mother" and her family CREDIT: Lange, Dorothea, photographer, "Migrant Agricultural Worker's Family. Seven Children without Food. Mother Aged Thirty-Two. Father is a Native Californian. Nipomo, California." February, 1936. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945, Library of Congress.

9. Migrant Mother “I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and the birds that the children killed.

10. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it” Dorothea Lange

11. Lange and the Relocation Camps Was asked to document the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans at Camp Manzanar, CA

12. Lange and Manzanar • Was against the forced relocation • Hoped that photos would show the injustice • Documented daily life at the camps

15. Thousands of Japanese Americans were interned at the camp in Manzanar, California CREDIT: "Evacuees of Japanese Ancestry Attending Memorial Day Services at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority Center--Boy Scouts and American Legion Members Participating in the Services Appear in the Foreground ..." May 1942. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Japanese American men register prior to their evacuation, on the orders of the Army CREDIT: Lange, Dorothea, photographer. "San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942--Residents, of Japanese Ancestry, Appearing at the Civil Control Station for Registration in Response to the Army's Exclusion Order No. 20--The Evacuees Will Be Housed in War Relocation Authority Centers for the Duration." April, 1942. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

16. Manzanar • The idea that photographs could influence people was a theme in Lange’s work • Have you ever been influenced by a photograph?

17. The Photographer as Motivator • Lange brought much needed attention to the plight of her subjects. • Lange’s photographs motivated agencies to take action. • Many people were moved by the images. • Her images provide an important record of history.

18. Documenting History • Every picture tells a story. • Photographs are an important tool of record. • Important information can be transported from on area to another.