Dorothea Lange early 1920’s-1950’s

1. Dorothea Langeearly 1920’s-1950’s

2. Famous for her photographs of the Great Depression Her portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography.

3. Migrant Mother1936 Migrant Mother"

4. Men walking towards Los Angeles 1937

5. Dust Bowl Farm

6. Woman of the High Plains Texas Panhandle 1938

7. While working on assignment for the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II, Lange photographed the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans in camps. 

9. Margaret Bourke-White 1920’s – 1950’s

11. Photojournalist and Activist on Humanitarian Issues throughout the world. Technological Developments 1929-1933 Industrial Photographer for Fortune Magazine 1930’s Great Depression / Dust Bowl 1930’s Staff Photographer for Life Magazine 1940’s WWII and the liberation of Concentration Camps 1940’s Gandhi’s campaign of nonviolence in India 1950’s African mine workers and apartheid in South Africa

12. Fort Peck Dam Montana 1936 Cover of the First Life Magazine

13. Buchenwald Concentration Camp Germany 1945

14. "Using a camera was almost a relief. It interposed a slight barrier between myself and the horror in front of me."

15. Gandhi India 1946

16. South African Miners Johannesburg Gold Mine 1950 Apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.

17. Paul Strand 1920’s-1970’sStrand was introduced to photography by the renowned social documentarian Lewis Hine

18. His photographic work focused on composition, light, and shadows.

19. Wire Wheel 1917

20. Porch Shadows1916

21. His work also reflects using his camera as a tool for promoting social and political issues.Strand referred to his method as “a process of gradual absorption, of sympathetic perception.” He spent several weeks getting to know a place and its people before taking a single shot.

22. Blind Woman New York1916

23. Young Boy France1951

24. Walker Evans 1928-1939

25. Most well known for his documentary photography during the Great Depression.

26. In 1936 he started the documentation of the living conditions of Alabama sharecropper families as part of a collaborative project with writer James Agee.

27. Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife1936

28. Many Are Called was a three-year photographic study of people on the New York subway. Using a camera hidden in his jacket and a cable release running down his sleeve, Evans snapped unsuspecting passengers while they traveled through the city. Evans said that these photographs were his “idea of what a portrait ought to be,” he wrote, “anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.”

30. Ansel Adams late 1920’s-late 1970’s

31. He is a legendary black and white photographer of the American West.

40. Aaron Siskind 1930’s-1991

41. He was known as an abstract expressionist that also took close-up and detailed photos of nature and architecture.

45. Henri Cartier-Bresson 1930’s – 1970’s

46. Known as the “Decisive Moment” Photographer “the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression."

47. Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare 1932

48. Hyeres 1932

49. Shanghai 1948

50. Harry Callahan 1938-1977