Resource

Life Story: Dorothea Lange (1895–1965)

Photographer and Documentarian of American Life

The story of a documentary photographer who captured the lives of citizens from the New Deal through World War II.

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California, Feb. 1936, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

Suggested Activities

  • View some of Dorothea’s images of sharecroppers. Ask students to analyze them. How do they represent Dorothea’s commitment to democratic documentary photography?
  • Expand on the study of Dorothea’s work. Complete the same activity as above, but with her most famous photograph,